As you are aware, I took a brief trip last weekend to Oklahoma. Waiting at the other end were my two brothers and my mother. Only one brother knew I was coming. I was a surprise for Mom and my younger brother. Forty years ago, when I was graduating from high school, we had a formal family portrait taken.
In all the intervening years, for some reason, we’ve never all been in the same place at the same time. Until last weekend.
Here’s one I got of my mom while I was setting up the shot and testing the shutter release. I’m just out of camera to the right, so yeah, it’s me she’s looking at.
Making a wish over her birthday cake.
Carissa Snedeker Photography 
Thanks for sharing the moment.
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You’re welcome.
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Heartwarming portraits.
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Thank you.
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Lovely. Thanks for sharing.
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🙂
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Lovely!
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Thank you.
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What a wonderful surprise. Beautiful family portrait, too.
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Thank you.
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Really wonderful photographs, Carissa. I just love the light in the portrait of your mother with her cake.
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Thank you. Just window light, which is some of the best there is, I think!
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How wonderful that you finally were all together. You look a lot like your mum 🙂
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It was a very special day.
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So nice, together after all that time. Warm and friendly photos, and the one with your mother alone in the sofa is a very good portrait.
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Thank you.
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