Photographs are windows to our memory. Reflections of our life. Reminders of our blessings. Each Wednesday we feature 5 personal favorite photos from a Creative Team member or a friend. These 5 photos will remind of us why photography is so beautiful and why documenting the everyday is so important. The goal is to leave us all a little more inspired to cultivate a good life and record it.

Our inspiration this week comes from Creative Team member Deb Duty. In her own words …

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Here are some recent favorites (and one not so recent) of a variety of different kinds of images that I like to capture.

Capture the details. I did take a photo of my son enjoying his snowball this day too, but I also wanted to remember just how yummy it looked up close.

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Capture relationships. On this day when I dropped my boys off at carpool, I documented how my older son always waits for his brother to grab his stuff so they can walk together. This makes me happy and I’m so glad I captured this moment last year because now my son is driving to school so my carpool days are already over.

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Capture the emotion. We totally surprised my in-laws with a 50th anniversary party. They asked me to take a picture of them by the cake, but my favorite was the one I snapped right after as they laughed and shared a moment with each other in disbelief.

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Capture the amazing world around you. I enjoy taking pictures on my walks of flowers or trees or whatever I find interesting… like the day I saw a perfectly shaped bunny cloud in the sky from my driveway.

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Capture the stories you want to remember. My mom took this photo in 1959 of the very first meal she prepared after she and my dad were married. She became a fabulous cook so I was always amused when I would look through her photos and see that their first meal was fish sticks, butter beans and loaf bread! My parents took very few photos when they were first married and almost none that didn’t include people. But for this one, she was ahead of her time… capturing a Project Life everyday kind of photo.

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You can learn more about Deb here + check out more of her everyday photos and Project Life pages on her blog.

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