Eden: A Process

Now, I'm not so sure Eden is a process.  She seems pretty well settled into her awesome self.  Rather, this project is a process, and these photos represent phase one.

To introduce Eden, I'll start by saying that I consider three people to be the standard of my improvement as a photographer.  Two are my sweet baby cousins, Miles and Oliver.  I've been photographing them since their wee infant days, and though their cuteness defies impossibility and increases exponentially every day, I feel like my growth as a photographer (albiet more slow!) tracks alongside them a bit.

The other person by whom I can measure myself (check out the grammar in this sentence!) is dear, sweet Eden.  This is the third time I've photographed her, and my oh my, I am so grateful and humbled for the chance to prove to myself that I really am improving.  Eden is genuinely one of the most beautiful women I know, and she has been so sweet as to model for me a few times.  I feel like her natural beauty and organic soul are more obvious in this shoot than ever--which, to me, indicates that I'm growing in the right direction.

Eden is a SENIOR! now, and this is phase one of her senior portraits.  We were going for romance with these.  The future will be a bit more edgy.  :)  Stay tuned.

dress:  vintage, Buffalo Exchange, Chicago
flowers:  Jan Barstad
hair/makeup:  Eden Carter

xoxo Bec

Eden

In a world that is so full of disappointment and dread and hurt, I am so grateful for moments like these.

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” 
― Maurice Sendak

More to come.  I'm dying of happiness, so it may be a little while.

xoxo Bec

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xoxo Bec