Portraits: The investment of Love
- danicaclayton
- Sep 1, 2017
- 2 min read
A couple of months ago I lost a very important member of the family - a pug I grew up with. Granted, I hadn't seen him for quite a few years but nevertheless the loss was still hard to come to terms with. Over the last few weeks I have had this urge to find the best photograph of this pet dog and get it made into a beautiful canvas.
The was only one problem with this... I had no suitable photographs! Now don't get me wrong, I had a million photographs of the dog... but every single photo he is in is either a) blurry or b) grumpy. I had absolutely no nice photos of him looking not so grumpy. Yes, I know it shouldn't matter what he looks like - as long as it's him that's fine!
The bigger concern is that all the photographs were phone photographs. Well, almost all of them. Unfortunately this poor pug was my testing subject for many years before I managed to get my hand on a camera. There were cute images, sure... but would I really want a gigantic blurry canvas staring at me everyday? Not really!
I look at other animals that I HAVE had the chance to photograph and it's amazing how life-like they look. How it almost is as if they are right there with me... and then you look at the phone images of my pug. They're just lifeless. Yeah they documented what he looked like at the time but they don't evoke any emotion or feeling. That's why professional portraits are so important (and especially printing them on a beautiful canvas). It allows you to have a connection with someone or some pet, in this case, you may have lost to time.
Beautiful portraits are an investment in love. You are able to look around the house and see reminders of exactly who your kids were at every stage of life and it just makes all the struggles worth it.
As for my pug... luckily I was able to grab a few photographs of him before the time did come. They're not amazing... but they're a small peek into who he really was. Definitely better than a blurry phone photograph!
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