You know the saying, 'the cobbler's kids who had no shoes.' That's Chris and me (It's me … Tricia Keels writing). We photograph for a living but only have a handful of photos of the two of us together.
We met in a Starbucks (yes, it happens) on October 16, 2000 and were engaged four months later, hardly enough time to compile 'couple photos' for a wedding slide show. We were married on September 8, 2001 and we're off to Italy the next day. We took two photos of everything we saw, one with Chris and then one with me.
Next came our children. And who has time to photograph themselves when two little miracles are running around with the longest eyelashes you have ever seen.
This photo was taken by a guest at the last wedding we shot. It was fun to have someone turn their camera on us to snap our smiles. She was nice enough to send it to us and I am posting it here as proof that Chris and I are indeed in the same place at the same time in front of a lens … not behind it. Thank you to Jill Bolognone for your generosity in shooting it and sending it to us. (Could you please send us a release form so we can have it printed …. Hee hee.)
We began discussing our lack of photos the other day and decided to take more of those self-portraits. You know, the ones where you hold the camera out with the lens toward you, put your heads close together, hit the button and hope you are both in the frame. As we began trying it out, we realized our cameras weigh about one million pounds. And holding them out like that with one arm proved a bit challenging. I think its time to get a point and shoot.
