Artistic Mother

morning walk

raising sons- morning light

These images show an important landmark in my life as a mother and landscape photographer.  Working as an artist with five beautiful children is a joy.  Like me, my kids love pictures.  My husband and I have four sons and one daughter.  We enjoy living in the country where there's plenty of room to run.  Some people feel at home in their neighborhoods or apartment complexes.  We have found our home in the fields and woods along the Missouri River.  Not that we live in a mud hut or anything, but we're not scared of working hard and getting dirty.  These pictures are sort of a hybrid of the two main types of photography I do.  First I'm a mother, or first I'm a landscape photographer.  It's sort of like the chicken and the egg, which came first?  Anyhow, they are both such a big part of my life that joining the two, my children and my art into one image was an epiphany.  I know I'm not the first mother to do this but I wanted to share.