Nora and Chris Photography

Jasmine Star is an inspiration to a lot of photographers who follow her blog, who look at her pictures and who fall in love over and over again, every time they see her photographs….She wrote an email to her best friends, and posted it to her blog for posterity sake. I thought I should also write her an email via my blog….posting it for posterity sake, about love, about photography and about life lessons I have learned along the way….

J*,

Ben and Jerry’s is good….but I am telling you, if you like coconuts….then “Coconut Bliss” is to die for!! (It’s basically for people like me, and maybe Tofurious, who are lactose intolerant!)

I follow your blog, and I love your photography, and I am sure that you hear that all the time, but one of the things that I try really hard to do with people I admire is to humanize them instead of making them into some sort of untouchable deity….because you realize as humans we have fears and faults and that make us even better people then the flawless fairy tale people in Romantic Comedies. Huge run on sentence, maybe a couple of fragments in there too.

What I also try really hard to remember when nerves get me, is why am I doing this? Why am I photographing a wedding? It is because at the end of the night, before a slice of pizza from Medietrranean Fire ($1.67/slice, no lie) I remember every moment I fell in love at the wedding, the bride’s smile, the capture of the little details, the look in the groom’s eyes as he sees his BEAUTIFUL bride for the first time, the almost ALWAYS tear jerking speech from the father of the bride or groom….and even though I am exhausted, and the next day I am dead to the world; I got to witness one of the most magical days of a couple’s lives, and capture moments to stand still in time….

I wake up the next morning, and feel like I got hit by a bus…and it was worth it! I think I heard you say once, it is the moments right before and right after that are magical….right before a kiss, right after a funny joke; and as photographers, we also have to live the moments right before (and for me it is the support and encouragement from my best friend, my fiance and my business partner; Chris….for you perhaps JD?) and the moments right after…and the laughter we experience all the way through.

I am sure that you wont suck, in fact I am positive of it….but the nerves that you feel about sucking, just remember that if you do….people will still remember the moments where you cracked a funny joke…(I normally remember the funny jokes I crack, because I am normally the only one laughing!), or the kindness that you gave to your students in the classroom, or the expectation that you set for them to be better….Chris always says to me, “It’s never as bad as you think.” And it never is!

So don’t be afraid to break that mould of what is “good”….or what “sucks”….do it and have fun….It’s never as bad as you think!

xo

Nora.

P.S. Yup, that is me with the big blue goofy glasses, and that guy from the Olympic Opening Ceremony, and Sean McG, and Duncan, and Adrienne. By proxy I am famous! Well ok, I am not famous, but he is: Shane Koyczan.

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