Lifetime Photography and Why It’s Important To Me / by Kelli Conley

A couple weeks ago I had the honor of documenting some photos of Maraya for her fifth grade graduation yearbook! She is an avid soccer player, so she wanted to add some photos for that in there as well!

After our session, I was transported to a trip down memory lane that started all the way back in 2014 when I had my first session with the Swatsworth family. Little did I know then that not only would we continue to have sessions over the years, but I would also get to witness and document their family grow up, which is so special! As a mom myself, it’s so special to have those tangible family photos from over the years and really get to compare the year to year growth and changes that our children (and us!) experience.

When people hear lifetime photographer, I feel like it’s common to think that we start at an engagement session and the wedding and then go from there, but really it is so much more! I have truly had the honor to watch my clients children grow up into the young adults that they are, and in turn give my clients a tangible memory to have forever. To know the Swatsworth family since 2014 and document them and their family over the years to now helping Maraya take her fifth grade graduation photos is truly so special.

Cultivating lasting relationships with my clients is one of the most important part of my job to me, and to be an,e to walk through memory lane with my clients like this is why I am a photographer!