I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately as I put together the website and logistics to launch Morgan Vickery Photography with a relaxed, honest approach to family photography.
Not what makes a photo “good” or “technically sound”, but what makes it feel like home. Because *that’s* the type of photos I long to create.
For me, home sounds like shaking a bucket of cattle cubes to call up the favorites for slobbery licks. It smells like fresh baked cookies in my mom’s kitchen. It feels like a slippery bass in my hand as I show off my latest catch to my brother (who is undoubtedly the reason I caught a fish at all versus snagged a branch). It tastes like a cold, craft beer and some sort of chip + dip situation on a porch with my favorite people. It looks like my daughter showing off her latest personality milestone with her curls bouncing and little round belly out on full display. And none of those moments are perfectly curated!
I grew up in the middle of ordinary moments that maybe didn’t feel super important at the time. But my mom often had a camera in hand, and those photos are so, so important now as I recollect childhood memories and even try to create some with my own little girl. I live for the moments that aren’t staged but that will mean the world as you look back on seasons that are all too fleeting in parenthood. Let the hair be wispy and wild. Leave the Bandaids on the knees. Don’t worry about the chipped glittery blue polish on their nails (or yours!).
I want to be with you at the intersection of ordinary life becoming cherished memory. Where this season of raising your family becomes frozen in time for just a moment so that you never forget the tiny things that carry the biggest weight.
And I want to do all of that while processing the experience through my eye as an artist. I obsess over the way light filters through the colander of leaves and speckles the ground. I crave the textures of tall grass blowing in a gentle breeze. And color? Oh I could play color palettes over in my mind forever. I love neutrals as much as the next millennial mom, but my heart will always belong to splashes of earthy color.
So I can’t wait to photograph more of what feels like home, for me and for you! Photos where life feels honest and candid. When the light is soft, the shadows playful, and the moment is real. So be it if there’s wind in the hair or dirt on the outfit. You aren’t performing, you’re living, and I love that! Home isn’t ever perfect. It’s layered, textured, usually a bit messy. It’s full of stories and laughter and love. The photos that feel like home are usually these things, too.
If that’s something you seek for your family, I’d love to photograph you. Not just how you look, but how it feels to be in your life, in this season, right now. Because these ordinary days? They go by too fast. And they are worth remembering just as they are.
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