Neither Toby nor I like self portraits… or being in family portraits… or portraits of any kind. It may sound silly coming from two people as passionate about photography as we are. We can’t help it. Quite frankly, we’d much rather be behind the camera. Turn the lens towards us and things get uncomfortable.

For months I have admired those photographers out there that take self portraits, those who have portraits of themselves done, and especially those that feature them on their website or blog. I always think to myself, “Wow! What a great way for their clients to feel a little more connected to their photographer/s before they actually meet! Too bad for our clients… There’s no way I’m doing that!!!” The more that I’ve kept up with the blogs of the brave (and beautiful) souls that constantly feature their own smiling faces as a staple of their site, the more I’ve wanted to put myself out there… I’ve also wanted, of course, to drag Toby along in the process.

So today, for the first time in a very, very long time, I turned the camera on myself. Then I turned it on my husband. = ) Good news! We both lived to tell the tale! Haha!!!

Here is the result! It will stay up here, but I had to share the story behind this simple cluster of nine photographs. A special thanks goes out to bobbi+mike for giving me the guts! Hopefully someday I’ll be up for posting the candid shots of us during our sessions! For now, I’m just celebrating this baby step!

- Annie