Rings and Things

There is a story behind every detail... If you are to look at my own wedding pictures, the tables are made up with things that remind me of home. Blue hydrangeas like the ones outside my Grandmothers home, green and fluffy moss that grows everywhere there like a glittering emerald carpet... Sea glass like my Grandfather and I would collect on the beach... Blue gems that represent both my mother's and my own birthstone, candles that my mother used to have all over the house when I was growing up, and silver bells like my Aunt collects... All of it reminded me of my Family. And Family to me is so very important.

I was working on dinner tonight and thought, hey, I haven't taken any pictures this weekend... And I was thinking of my family... So I decided to get out my camera take some up close ring shots just for fun. Which to me still seems a little funny to just whip out my camera at home for no apparent reason, but to my husband, the self proclaimed "non photographer" (his pictures rock by the way) he thinks it's perfectly normal for me to be doing this one random Sunday evening... Leave it to him to think I'm normal in any way at all :~) I suppose he'd think differently had I not stopped shooting in time to watch True Blood!

Anyway, about the ring. My Grandmother gifted this ring to me one day, very unexpectedly. I cherish it, and I wear it every day. Garnet is my Grandmother's birthstone, and although we couldn't be farther apart geographically without one of us leaving the States, she is with me always when I wear it. One day I hope to pass along this ring to my grandchild, but more than that, I hope to pass along the strength, the love, and the belief that family means so very much, just like my Grandmother still does for me to this day.

Family and details - these are things that drive my photography. I know that every last detail is chosen for a reason, and it tells a story. Sometimes that story can be about traditions, family, or simply a story about the couples' personality and things they LOVE. And above all things, I believe in LOVE... :~)