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 ‘I hope you don’t mind, but I want to share what we are hoping for from this session. Please do not feel the need to take us to popular tourist sites for photographs. Your favorite bridges, canals, back streets and palazzos will be perfect. As I mentioned before, Talia is turning 1 just after the trip. We have pictures of both of our other kids getting messy with cake on their first birthday. Would you mind taking one as well? We would greatly appreciate it if we can swing by a bakery during the session and let the big kids buy their sister something messy and then photograph the impending chaos.’ Family Vacation Photographer Venice

Dan, Allison & their three energetic daughters – Abby, Sophie and baby Talia.

Making memories to last a lifetime comes with its fair share of cost. Everyone knows vacation with young children is more work than holiday. Everyone knows it’s all about your kids running around, screaming, asking hundreds of never ending questions. Everyone knows it’s all about forever stained t-shirts and scratched knees. Everyone should also know this won’t last forever. Kids will grow up. They will become tired of running and bored of screaming. They will no longer walk around with jam or ice-cream leftovers on their chubby cheeks and noses. And when you finally breathe a sigh of relief, you will also smile at the faded memories of the chaos that once ruled your everyday life. You will laugh remembering your child accidentally falling into a canal when visiting Venice, then smelling bad for two days so you were embarrassed at this posh restaurant somewhere near the Rialto bridge. You will laugh remembering your child playing with the car keys, then dropping them into a manhole somewhere near Louvre Museum. Your family of six was stuck in Paris without any luggage for a day – all your kids already had their t-shirts stained and you were just about to check in a nice hotel and wash their faces as you all went for crepes with cream few minutes earlier. You will be happy to look back at the pictures that captured any of these moments. They will make you laugh even more – maybe you will also cry and miss the moments that are gone forever.

Dan’s family showed me themselves as they are. The older girls love dancing and running – so they did dance and they did run. They are one happy family so they did smile and laugh uncontrollably a lot. The girls’ first language is English but they had recently started studying French so we spent some time listening to them reciting poems in French. Baby Talia was about to turn one few days later so we stopped by a cafe to let Sophie and Abby choose a nice cake for their younger sister to smash. We crossed tens of bridges and walked through countless squares and narrow alleys – talking, laughing and dancing when the girls inspired us to. Talia was sleepy so we let her sleep in her dad’s arms. Then we sat by a tiny canal and let the little one smash her cake once she was awaken. There were stained t-shirts. There was some cream on the noses and cheeks. There were laughs. There was love.

They created memories. These moments are already gone. They will never be repeated again. But they have something to look back on and smile.

Enjoy a monochrome gallery of Dan & Allison’s family vacation in Venice. Let the spills of emotion and full body laughter stand over the colours.

 

I believe photography isn’t about insincere exaggerated pretence. I believe it’s about honest responses and raw emotions. Looking back at your old posed family pictures from 1992 gives you nothing but remembering how everyone looked in 1992 and how stressed out you were about repeating your children to stand straight and smile. Let them jump – the smile will come out naturally, born from happiness and freedom. Every family has its own energy. Bring it with you and use it. Let your children be children.

Just because it’s precious to look back at your childhood pictures and think ‘I was such a personality when I was five. This was already me now’.

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