When it comes to getting family pictures done, it’s not on the top of our list. I’m an Upper East Side mom, and I’ve gotten to know the community. You’re the schedulers, the lunch-packers, the career-builders, the ones who remember every birthday and appointment. You make sure to care for your family AND others in your community. You are amazing.

In the days of the 1-hour photo, all of our pictures were processed and printed. Now, they’re all locked away in the cloud and we view them on our screens - screens that we tell our kids to get off of, and screens we need a break from too.

But as Parker Sargeant said, photography is “about capturing a moment and knowing that moment will live on.”

So true! I specialize in candid, documentary family photography. I want the moms to be in the pictures too, and not always the photographer. Also, I’ll make photo boxes, fine-art albums and prints.

When I find a print of myself with my kids, my heart melts and I’m so grateful to have it. And dads, I see you too.

This image looks like it was created in Canva but it's literally me taking a picture on my phone of a print on a piece of paper when I was at my mom’s in Chicago.

My mom turned 80 recently and we went to see her and eat the delicious food she's still cooking. After dinner we pulled out the pictures. This picture is something I found among the others. It's special. It shows that joy I felt as a child and the love my mom had for me.

Decades go by and you forget the feeling of being a child. You forget the bond. You forget the closeness. But then you find the picture. And it is deeply touching.

This is why I do what I do. Not just for the ability to see yourself with your child in real time, as the phone shows you. I do it so people can be reminded even decades later that they were loved.

Is it the wrong season?

It’s true that I always get an uptick of calls during the fall and spring seasons, but truly, especially in NYC, there’s never a bad time to take pictures. After a lovely vacation on the seaside you’ll be sun-kissed, relaxed and ready to sink into the lazy hazy days of beautiful Central Park or anywhere really. New York is HOT, I’m not gonna lie, but doing an early morning or sunset shoot is dreamy, cooler, and gloriously less crowded.

If this feels like the little nudge you needed, please do reach out.

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Let’s take beautiful pictures, make an album for you, and wall art, and boxes of prints.

These are the objects that are the center of attention at family gatherings years later and spark a hundred stories and mysteries. These are the objects that people clutch onto if they have to flee their homes.

These are the objects that people generations later are fixated on. Who is that? How am I related to those people? I love them, because they are my ancestors. I really wanted to take the original print, but decided to keep it with the others - the ones from the early 1900s because I want to be part of the continuum of my family's history.

(An aside, I'm now noticing how utterly glamorous my mom is. It's obviously not a professional photo shoot evidenced by my circa 1973 oh-so-cool yellow footie pajamas. She just naturally had on that white dress, black shoes with her silky black hair.)