One L Photography | The Vision

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For as long as I can remember, I have always loved THINGS. I don’t mean in a materialistic way, I mean in a way where I hold a strong sentimental attachment to objects that a lot of people would consider junk. I’m actually dumbfounded at the way most people look at things as just THINGS. Childhood toys, that embarrassing prom dress, obnoxious costume jewelry passed down from Grandma – the idea of donating or throwing that stuff away actually makes my heart sad. To me, these objects – these THINGS – each represent a tiny little fleeting moment in my life that I can never get back. 

It’s like that time when you were helping your parents clean out the attic of the house you grew up in and you found the torso-less bottom half of your little brother’s favorite GI Joe – Pathfinder (Jungle Assault Specialist). If you had somehow overlooked it and the new family moving in had found it, they would have simply looked at it as a piece of trash and thrown it away. When YOU find it, however, you immediately find yourself right back in 1992 looking at the devastated look on your brother’s face, praying to god he doesn’t start crying, all while formulating a story in your head that you are going to try and sell to your mom which ends with you NOT being in trouble. That is a moment you might have forgotten had it not been for finding that silly little piece of plastic, but also a moment you never want to let go of. 

THAT feeling is what I aim to create with every one of my photographs. It is often not through the standard, traditional poses you might have expected (we will still do those, too), but instead the fleeting moments of your life you might have tragically forgotten had I not been the voice behind the camera. These moments might take place at your wedding, a family party, a sporting event – anywhere you find yourself interacting with people you love, creating little pieces of awesome that you never want to let go of. No matter what the occasion, I will be there to save these moments from extinction and I will do so in the same bold, colorful way in which you experienced them firsthand.  -Michele (with ONE L)