Sandra’s Portrait Experience

Sandra is a lifestyle photographer who wanted to experience a legacy portrait session with me. Aside from needing a profile image for her website, she wanted to have legacy portraits to give to her parents and to pass down to her children. When she saw her images, she shed some tears and had a hard time articulating what she was feeling so agreed to write about her experience. She writes:

I was simultaneously looking forward to having my portrait taken by Judy and really nervous about it! I don’t like to be the center of attention, and I was worried about being able to follow directions. I knew Judy was good at what she does, but there was that thought of “what if I am just too hard to work with.” I stopped worrying the second my time with Judy began.

Judy is absolutely amazing! She is warm and open and her studio feels so welcoming. Her instructions are so easy to follow that even I can do it. I was able to let go of my worries and just enjoyed the time spent in front of the camera. She is the perfect hostess in addition to being a very talented photographer.

I was excited about seeing the final product and the reveal blew me away. I am a wife and mom and businesswoman who spends most of her time just playing catch up with life. The images that Judy captured showed ME. But not the me that barely keeps her kids in clean clothes and forgets to send her preschooler to school in a hat for “Dr. Seuss Day.” When I look at my images, I see the me that used to travel around the world. The me that does her own thing, and doesn’t care what others think. It’s the me that is still in there somewhere, but on most days I don’t know how to get to her. Seeing myself in my images is giving me courage to look for myself again in my every day life.