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The Breakers Palm Beach Family Session Turned Into Legacy Wall Art

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The first photograph is my client's wall after installation.

The second photograph is what I designed in my software.

My client said to me, "It's rare that you see something that is exactly how it looked from conception and you did that for us."

That is a magical feeling.

I'm really proud of this one. I'm most proud because of the text I received last night, from said client, "Shannon, our house feels like a home. Thank you, thank you."

I'm an artist and a big part of me is a narcissist at heart. I love the feeling I get when someone "likes" one of my photographs on social media. But, the truth is that it's so fleeting. After I post the photo, and it is liked by others, it is soon forgotten. These photographs will not be forgotten. They will live on in my client's home. Every day, when they walk downstairs, this is the first thing they will see. Sloan, their daughter, will see how much she was/is loved.

This is why I do it. The love this family will see for each other, every single day, that is my why.

Preserving a Fisher Island Family's Legacy Through Photographs

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Preserving a Fisher Island Family's Legacy Through Photographs

What do you want the world to remember about you? What do you want your children to remember about you as a parent? How do you want your spouse to feel thirty years from now? How will you preserve those memories that you cherish and spent years making?

This is why I work very closely with my custom printer, framer, and album artisan. Preserving my client’s legacy by print is as equally important as photographing them.

Don’t let your legacy die on a hard drive.

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It's Not What You Really Want

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It's Not What You Really Want

Could I answer one email, show up and photograph you beautifully, and hand you digitals? Yes. So why do I have an entire process that takes weeks leading up to our session together? Why does it feel like I’m complicating something that could be so quick and easy?

Because quick and easy isn’t what you really want.

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Let's Finally Get Those Photographs onto Your Walls

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Let's Finally Get Those Photographs onto Your Walls

How long have you been saying, “I really need to print these photographs and put them up”?

Be honest. You know it’s been a while, probably entirely too long.

Do you know why you haven’t done it yet? It’s too overwhelming. Let’s look at some possible reasons as to why you haven’t done it:

  1. You don’t have the time.

  2. You don’t know which photos will look good next to each other.

  3. You don’t know where to have your photographs printed.

  4. You don’t know where to purchase museum quality frames.

  5. You don’t know where the digital files are.

  6. You don’t know how to put a gallery wall together.

  7. You don’t know how to get custom sized prints and frames for your unique space.

  8. You don’t know where to start.

That's where a professional comes in. When I first started photography I just wanted to photograph the session, hand over the digital files, and be done with it. I started to notice that a lot of my couples, families, and boudoir clients had no clue what to do with these files. I would talk to them a year later and the files would still be sitting on their computer. This broke my heart and it was my job to come up with a solution. It's not fair to call myself a professional photographer if I'm not putting in the work.

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Your computer crashed and you lost all of your photographs

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Your computer crashed and you lost all of your photographs

Yes, I’ve heard clients say this.

Yes, it makes my heart drop into my stomach.

Yes, this is your photographer’s job to make sure this never happens to you.

I would highly recommend that you use an online storage, while also backing up to an external hard drive. Here are my recommendations:

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