the faroe islands / a film
my dad was the photographer in our family, our albums are full of his shots... when handheld camcorders became the thing he was right on board, filming little snippets here and there of our life. as a teenager i can assure you i hated this & ducked away from the camera at every opportunity, but then i started asking my dad to borrow the camera and my brother and i would create homemade films in the backyard. i think i even wrote in my junior high school yearbook that i wanted to be a movie director when i grew up.when i thought about becoming a mum, one of my biggest fears was that i would throw myself so fully into my new role (as i'm wont to do) that i'd lose part of myself in the process... i didn't want to wake up one morning and find that i'd stopped following my passions or the other things i was interested in, the things that made me me.a few days before giving birth to our daughter we had a meeting with a couple who's wedding we'll photograph next year. they are both in creative fields, and they shared with us a film they'd made on a trip together & it sparked something in me...almost exactly one year ago today dave and i took a trip to the faroe islands, with a stopover in copenhagen on the way. we'd made a little film of our few days in copenhagen, but then life happened, we got busy and all the footage from the rest of the trip just kinda sat around. well, i dug it up again & put this together...it's funny how you inadvertently follow in your parents' footsteps... i really enjoy filming, capturing things in a different way than in photos -- it's like flexing a different creative muscle, doing something that i have no expectations for how it will turn out and just playing around with it... i think we all need something like that.one day i'll get to the hundreds of photos we took in the faroe islands, but for now : from our trip to the faroe islands, may 2015, all shot on the iphone 5s.
the discovery / faroe islands travel photos
the hunch is what gets you out the door, but the discovery is wilder than you can imagine / lulu miller
we go on shoots.... we meet people.... photograph weddings.... go on wild trips like when we went to the remote faroe islands last year (image above).... & every time we go in with this idea of what it will be like. that's not bad -- it's what gets us excited & out the door. but when we overthink it, you could say we go in with certain expectations, things we think will happen, things we might feel disappointed by if they don't go the way we thought. & maybe then we put on blinkers and forget to look around and notice.
the faroe islands challenged us on that. like, super challenged us on that.
we went expecting one thing and got another, more than we could have imagined.
the world is so much bigger, diverse & surprising than my silly little brain can imagine. i need to remember that more often.... i need to look around & really take it in.
image from mykines, an outer island in the faroe islands, may 2015.