Mommy and Me Photo Session/ McAllen Photographer/ Nicole Gates Photography

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...little Ali will look at this photo when she is an adult and this photo will be THE most precious thing in her possession. One day, HER children will adore it. And one day, their children will treasure it. Being able to capture parents with their children in this way just fills my heart.

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One time someone asked me if I photograph children and I think I that at the time I said no, because I truly wanted adults to find the reasons to exist in photos. My passion was always to get moms in front of the camera. Too often moms and dads have their children photographed when they are born, when they turn one and destroy a beautiful cake hahaha, graduate kindergarten, graduate high school, get married,...and then the cycle starts all over with them.

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If you were to go back and create a photographic timeline of your children, you could do it, right? BUT, how many of you could create a photographic timeline of yourself? How many of you remember to step in front of the camera because your kids need to remember you as you were? How many of you just take the photos and find a thousand reasons why not to be in them?

So, to answer that question, of course I photograph children! I just don’t want parents to only have their kids photographed because their kids will want to see their parents as they grew up. They will want to see how they looked when they were 2 yrs old, but also what their mommies looked like when they were two years old. Kids are going to want to see the slow change as their parents aged, lived and loved, how they looked when they were younger, and then older. How mom looked as she was just getting those amazing laugh lines that show she has loved and laughed and unabashedly did so. They will love to see as their mom got a bit smaller and a little more silver haired and will recall how her gait changed and her energy changed. They will want to exist in photos for their children because their parents showed them how. They will use these photos to remember important things that may have been tucked away in their subconscious.

So don’t wait. Exist in photos. Create precious memories. Call me. I would love to do this for you, too.