Even if you aren’t from the generation that had a smartphone in elementary school, you probably have one now. With a smartphone with you at all times, I bet not a single day goes by that you don’t open the camera app. Am I wrong?
Here are a list of what I believe to be the 10 top life events you will want to hire someone to take your photo, and make sure you are in the photo too!
High School – College – University Graduation
This is such a special time in any young adults life. The transition from teen/kid to young adult starting their life on their terms. There are only a few times in your life where you can truly feel like you are able to start from scratch and craft your destiny.
Why would you not want to honour this time with photos by a professional? I know…this generation probably as a phone filled with candid moments with their friends. Are those the images that get sent to a professional printing house and shared with parents/grandparents/aunts/uncles? Not likely. Professional photos get framed and shared with all the generations that are so proud of the adult that they watched growing up.
For that reason, I love this “reason” for a professional photo shoot. It’s so much more popular in the United States than it is in Canada, and I really feel we need to celebrate our young adults with professional photos!
Engagement (a likely time for a Boudoir Session)
A lot of professional photographers will make their living celebrating this genre of photography. If you are a budding photographer or a seasoned pro, why the heck wouldn’t you? The celebration of love and marriage is never going to go out of business. Celebrate love for a living. Sounds glamorous and wonderful.
For me personally, photographing weddings holds a level of anxiety and stress that doesn’t fill my cup. What makes my cup overflow is when the bride to be wants to give her groom-to-be a special wedding present with an intimate gift of a Boudoir Album. HECK YES!!!!
Wedding Day
This is a wonderful day with so many finer details and special moments that you will never want to forget. For that reason and so many more, having a Wedding Photographer that you trust and love their style is so important. This is definitely not a day to keep your Smartphone in your pocket and grab selfies on the fly.
Baby Shower
Another life event where you want to focus on your guests and the experience of them celebrating you and your upcoming baby arrival. However, once the baby arrives, you will want to look back and remember the beautiful time when you were carrying your baby and how your body was creating a life that you will love forever. This is another great time to consider a Boudoir Session, to celebrate your body and the miracle it is creating. You won’t have these gorgeous curves forever.
Milestone birthday
This is a HUGE opportunity to book a session and celebrate yourself. Never a better reason to book a session than to offer yourself a self love experience that you will be able to look back on forever. Spa days with friends are great, but eventually you won’t think of that day and remember the experience. A Boudoir Session is life changing and with a gorgeous leather bound album, you will be able to look back for many years to come and remember how you felt.
Career achievement
This is where Professional Personal Branding Photo Session plays an important part in your career development. We have all heard the saying, dress for the job you want. Well don’t just dress that way and hang out at home. Dress up and get your Personal Branding photos done and then show the world how awesome you are at showing up as your best self and land the next promotion!
If you think no one is checking out your LinkedIn profile, you are wrong. Spice it up and pay attention to professional social sites.
Health or wellness milestone
I love this reason. Maybe you are on a health journey and are starting to feel good on the inside with everything you have accomplished. Not every health journey is for a dramatic weight loss transformation. Some health journeys can’t be seen at all, but matter the most. Whether you have lost weight, toned your body with exercise and diet or spent some well deserved time getting your head and heart to align with your life values…all of those important milestones should be celebrated.
Family Vacation
This is a more tricky one, because you have to do a little planning ahead of time. If you know you will be in an area and want to hire a photographer to take lifestyle photos of you and your family on your vacation…go to Instagram, and search for photographers in that area and check their feed. Does it vibe with what you had it mind? Maybe you can’t find the perfect photographer, so grab a tripod and take it with you. Do your best to grab Family Photos with just a tripod and your phone. What you don’t want is no photos with you in them to look back on after your vacation.
Family reunion
Definitely plan for this if you are gathering multiple generations together for an event. Maybe it’s Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter…try to plan to have a photographer there to capture all the generations. Trust me. You will be happy that you did. Again, more technical for you, but if you don’t have a photographer lined up…get a smartphone tripod and rally the troops.
BONUS: Divorce (Yep! You read that right!)
My favourite. I have enough friends and colleagues that have gone through this massive life changing event. Some saw it coming, others were devastated and completely blindsided. What is the same for both scenarios, is the fresh start they have been given.
Time heals all wounds, and I really do believe that. As Angelina Jolie was quoted saying (paraphrasing a little)…”go straight through the pain, don’t stop. Keep going”.
Once you are in a good space to be excited for the gift you have been given. The opportunity to carve a life that you want, without having to collaborate with anyone else…book the photo shoot.
You have been given the gift of reinvention of your own destiny. THAT is something to be celebrated and captured in a gorgeous Album and Wall Art!
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