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Photography: No Flower Moon and Graduation

I missed the full moon. My daughter graduated high school. Sleep eludes me.

So many emotions follow me around these days, and it’s no coincidence I’ve thrown myself into photography like jumping off a cliff. In the last month I’ve done ten photos shoots.

I’m not sure I was prepared for all this. I need a faster computer, a camera that handles low light better, and more time. Always more time.

But I’m learning and growing. This is how I step toward my fifties, with camera in hand, watching both my kids crafting adventures for themselves, discovering career paths, and falling in love. I watch them and remember both being their age, and nursing them.

My daughter walked across the stage on Thursday, moved the tassel to the other side, and I couldn’t be more proud of her. She’s talented, beautiful, funny, and incredibly loving. Whatever she does, I’ll be here to watch and cheer her on. I’ll probably also take photos of it!

So, here are some photos I took instead of the moon, and just a few shots of my daughter’s senior session we did last month. Isn’t she incredible?

Have a wonderful week!

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  • These were taken with my Olympus E-M1 MarkII, using a 14-150mm lens and edited with Lightroom Classic.

31 thoughts on “Photography: No Flower Moon and Graduation”

    • Thank you, Roy! The entire shoot was really about leaving home. That’s my grandmother’s suitcase we used as it felt important, like a passing off to the next generation. I think I’m still in denial both my kids are grown now.

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  6. This was such a deeply heartfelt and beautiful reflection 💛✨
    You can truly feel the mix of pride, love, nostalgia, and change woven through every word. The way you described stepping into this new chapter of life with a camera in hand felt incredibly moving — almost like photography has become your way of holding onto fleeting moments while also embracing what’s ahead

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    • That’s it exactly! It’s also a way to get me out into the world in search of life and beauty. It can be so hard in the world and think it’s important for all of us to find our path forward.

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      • I really appreciate the way you’ve extended that thought.

        There’s something very real in what you’re saying—how even experiences that feel difficult or uncomfortable can still end up nudging us outward, into contact with life, people, and unexpected moments of beauty. Sometimes the world doesn’t offer ease, but it does offer movement, and in that movement we slowly find our way forward.

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      • Exactly. It’s hard to see it sometimes, but life seems to be about a constant state of letting go and learning. It’s taken me a long time to accept that and now I just think “oh, I wonder what will happen next!”

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  8. Congrats to your daughter. Hopefully she’s taking it in her stride, but you and I both know how significant this is. From the people I’ve spoken to, it seems to be the minimum requirement for absolutely everything there.

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