before we were parents

Sep 28

Posted by: Scott in: blog, camera practice, just another day in paradise, me myself and i, memories, parenting, ramblings

Today I was looking back at old photos I took when we went to the mountains in October of 2004.  I was about four months pregnant with Caleb.  I’m terribly sorry if I puked in your driveway on that trip.  Now that we have that out of the way…. It was amazing to me how young I looked.  Well rested.  And naive.  I wasn’t worried about things like the price of diapers going up or the condition of the school system going down.  I didn’t think about being unspeakably tired or being spit up on.  Of course I was excited, but for the most part, I was just floating along waiting to get more and more plump until baby came.  Life was infinitely…simple.  If you had even tried to put into words then, the the emotions of overpowering and all encompassing love I would feel, I could have never understood.  Even as I flipped back through the pictures, and I know I have grown as a photographer in those years, but the pictures just looked…empty.  There was no story being told, no emotion being conveyed, they were just snapshots of the trees, the road, the clouds.  Lifeless pictures (I added what I could with a little editing today, something I knew nothing about back then).  It is amazing how much color a child brings to an otherwise black and white world.

If there was one picture out of the hundreds I took on that trip that did tell a story, it would be this one.  It is good to be able to look back and laugh, but that trip got off to a rough start.  We left late one night after Scott got off working the second shift.  Let’s just say, some essential camping provision was left behind by a party who shall remain unnamed.  We had been planning to camp the first night, drive down the Blue Ridge Parkway and stay at a bed and breakfast type inn the second night.  When we awoke that first morning (it rained all night long) we were engulfed in a fog that makes the movie The Fog look like a clear day.  We spent most of the day driving about 15-25mph praying that anyone else venturing out would be taking the same precautions.  I still to this day have never seen anything like that.

This gives you an idea of how far in front of us we could see.

This elevation was obviously in the peak of color change

The next day, we went to Chimney Rock Park, and the weather was absolutely spectacular, we could see for miles.

Comments

3 Responses to “before we were parents”

    Amber
    September 29th, 2008 10:33 am

    Your top pic is exactly how it was at Grandfather Mtn this weekend. We couldn’t see a darn thing! Guess that just means we’ll have to go back. Shucks!

    Val
    September 29th, 2008 11:02 am

    I remember those days…..sans kids. Carefree, sleeping in on the weekends, could get up and go to the movies whenever we liked…….although I think I would miss the kids terribly…..I’ll take it!

    No really, I would really miss them. But don’t tell them I told you that. You can never let them see you crack!

    Dianna
    September 29th, 2008 8:43 pm

    Great shots as always. Although I have to disagree. They were full of color, just your and Scott’s colors before Caleb was around.

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