Capturing early expressions
Whether your little bundle lays sleeping helplessly in your arms, or alittle squeamish or screaming with hunger, or telling you he is totally neglected although you've cuddled and nursed him or her for an hour or two, or whether he is perched against your risen knees in bed while his wrinkled face and big dark eyes express to you at least 50 expressions in 20 seconds, these moments are moments we have to admit that we do in fact forget, unless that is, we capture them in some way or another.
Having had 3 children, currently 2 adult children and one toddler I know that it has been hard to snatch moments to write down in descriptive form what my baby is doing, I know it has its place. The times that I have done so, have been very emotionally touching moments when reflected on in future days. These have been the words that strengthen my bonds and re-enforce the power of love within my heart during their teen years.
However, because words, wonderful as they are, can be a challenge to express and do justice to your endearing and time demanding bundle, it is much faster and visually more impacting to make the effort to pull out the camera and capture candid expressions and those first frowns of 100 wrinkles like Dad's on the forehead.
As a recent new Mum I feel that in reality I tend to miss at least 99% of all the wonderful moments that I see pass before my eyes, I only hope that my memory stores them in my knowledge bank. Unfortunately, as life can be stressful and extremely time consuming, these things are blocked from our memory which stress has a tendency to do. Within myself I have a deep sadness that I didn't have a good camera or the money to have professional photos taken when my daughter 18 years ago was born. Also the stress of my relationship situation and living circumstances stole away my early memories of the first few years of my daughter's life. Do I regret this? Yes of course. It still stirs me deep within to even consider this. She has just turned 18 and over the past 2 years since sweet 16 has been wanting me to tell her all about her babyhood and the cute things she did. Also to show her photos and re-live our happy days amongst the not so happy. I found myself repeating things that seem to have stuck which she had already heard. I struggled with tears in my heart as I tried earnestly to dig up, extract, pull out or any manner of recollection that I could in order to bring my daughter's babyhood back to life. All I could think of was the major tantrums and head strong temper she had. Somehow I had blocked anything beyond that. Blurry photos from my $2 garage sale camera were all that I could look at to try to bring up a recollection or two.
With modern camera and photo enhancement technology I managed to put together a small group of her baby photos, edit and restore them, enlarge them alittle and created a sepia montage on a professional background with a lovely black wooden shadow box. I gave this to her for her 18th birthday. Her eyes were glued to it as she imagined it on the walls of her new home. It captured in essence, her sweetness as a newborn and young baby with her brother and birth father. She said she felt a sense of having a real family afterall and that she did have some nice pictures of those days which she can proudly present on the wall. The second gift was from a photo of her as a 3 year old standing in her grandparents garden holding a red flower with a mess of white blonde curly hair. I managed to restore it to its original beauty, turned it into a beautiful painting and enlarged it onto a 20 x 30" canvas with a touching scripture to match the moment. Her eyes were totally glued. At last Ifelt that although those days of her baby and childhood were past, that through the wonder of modern technology I was able to make that connection with her.
Bubble Pix has been birthed through my eyes as a mother, and motivated through personal experience of knowing the need and place for visuals to stimulate and bring to life the connections we had at first with our children and for their sake to stand as points of reflective reference capturing their first interactions with their family and the world around them.
With fancy technology and the ability to create fantasy photos at Bubble Pix, I have been able to capture my youngest daughter's expressions and interactions from the earliest moment of life.
I am personally happy to be able to help any other mother or father who desire to capture some of those precious moments in full colour and size and be as creative as you would like to enable you to freeze time and memory.
If you have a story of how precious your early photos have been and are to you, please write to me. Lets reveal the preciousness of capturing life in its infancy.
Tanya