Words + photos week is in full swing at the Irwin home.
Last night in a couple of minutes I wrote a paragraph -- a short account -- about our drive to school. I felt compelled to take a photo of the kids in the rear view mirror on the way to school yesterday. We were all enjoying each other so much and I wanted to "snap" that. There's a childrens' book series called Cam Jansen where the character Cam has a photographic memory and when she wants to make a mental note of something she says "click" out loud. This had been one of those moments.
I typed the story right over a photo enlargement, mounted it on cardstock, added a date stamp and a circle accent and called it GOOD.
The photo was over-saturated as I was shooting into the sun and had my camera set to manual in order to have the correct lighting for inside of the car. It was an ideal situation to add text directly over the picture.
Is this going to garner any praise as a scrapbook layout? No, probably not. Do I really care? No. Is it my favorite thing ever? No. It's beyond simple, but it's done and that's the important thing. Really. There is always tomorrow to create the next story to satisfy that drive to make it better. Isn't there?
What is accomplished is I've satisfied my primary goal of capturing that moment for myself and the kids to keep as they grow. That is what matters to me.
Oh, and I have four other things in the works as well. Can you say liberating?
