{"id":431,"date":"2010-04-14T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T02:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geninegullickson.net\/?p=431"},"modified":"2010-04-14T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T02:01:14","slug":"this-is-the-time-albany-ny-family-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/2010\/04\/14\/this-is-the-time-albany-ny-family-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Time &#8211; Albany, NY Family Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a current family portrait?\u00a0 Most people&#8217;s answer to that is probably NO &#8212; life is busy right?\u00a0 Unfortunately, we often let things like documenting<br \/>\nour families slip by &#8211; month after month or year after year.\u00a0 Always with the intention of doing it &#8211; but never quite making it enough of a priority to schedule and<br \/>\ncoordinate it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-432\" title=\"hitls20-copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geninegullickson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/hitls20-copy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"hitls20-copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-433\" title=\"hitls9-copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geninegullickson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/hitls9-copy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"hitls9-copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nA few weeks ago, I was honored to photograph this family.\u00a0 We had talked a few times about getting something scheduled &#8211; but it just never happened.<br \/>\nThe original intention was to capture grandparents with their grandchildren and children.\u00a0 And if you take a look at these &#8211; you see 2 of those three categories<br \/>\ncovered.\u00a0 About a month earlier the grandfather passed away suddenly.\u00a0 Now I know this family personally &#8211; and one of the things that crossed my mind<br \/>\nshortly after was&#8230;.&#8221;we never did those pictures&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 In talking with his daughter, the same thought had run through her mind as well.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so hard to loose<br \/>\nmembers of our family.\u00a0 And people often tell you &#8211; your memories will help you through &#8211; they&#8217;ll provide some comfort in the time to come.\u00a0 Granted our brains<br \/>\nare wonderful tools for that &#8211; but they can&#8217;t produce a physical image that you can hold in your hands.\u00a0 There&#8217;s something very powerful about holding a portrait in<br \/>\nyour own two hands &#8211; or staring into it with your eyes as you remember the person who is no longer with you.\u00a0 Portraits have a wonderful magic<br \/>\nto them &#8211; they freeze those moments in time &#8211; and are often capable of bringing you right back to the scene you are looking at.\u00a0 Sometimes to the<br \/>\npoint that we can really feel the emotion that was occurring or hear the voices and conversation exactly at that point.\u00a0\u00a0 That is invaluable.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-436\" title=\"hitls4-copy1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geninegullickson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/hitls4-copy1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"hitls4-copy1\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-437\" title=\"hitls13-copy1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geninegullickson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/hitls13-copy1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"hitls13-copy1\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So back to the question&#8230;. Do you have a current family portrait?\u00a0 What are you waiting for?\u00a0 This is the time &#8211; you will love your images forever &#8211; and they<br \/>\nwill immortalize your family &#8212; don&#8217;t wait&#8230;.\u00a0 you&#8217;ll be grateful you have them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-438\" title=\"hitls7-copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geninegullickson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/hitls7-copy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"hitls7-copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nGENINE GULLICKSON PHOTOGRAPHY<br \/>\nwww.geninegullickson.net\u00a0 518.248.0834<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a current family portrait?\u00a0 Most people&#8217;s answer to that is probably NO &#8212; life is busy right?\u00a0 Unfortunately, we often let things like documenting our families slip by &#8211; month after month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,26],"tags":[24,8,32,33,15],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-photographs","category-children-family-photography","category-general","tag-children","tag-family","tag-family-photographs","tag-family-pictures","tag-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geninegullickson.com\/portraits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}