The amazing ladies of I Heart Faces hold a weekly photography link up and contest; I have never entered but I always follow along because they inspire me and I am in awe.
This week it was hands, I have found myself drawn to hands, to taking pictures of them, staring at them. I think that hands tell a story about who you are and how you’ve lived, what your passions are.
So, I thought that I’d share a few of my Hand pictures with y’all. I hope that y’all are as inspired as I am.
My Granny’s Hands: Timeless Grace, Long Lived Beauty, Strength, Comfort and Love
My Dad’s Hands: Strong, Kind, Musical, Loving
Nathan’s Hands: Providing, Loving, Gentle, Caressing, Strong, Beautiful, Powerful
10 Day Old Newborn Hands: Trusting, Soft, New, Tiny, Endless Possibility
I love this. You totally make me want to become an awesome photographer.
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Well Christine, we already know that you’re awesome in front of the camera, I bet you’d be an amazing photog.. take the plunge and get the good camera.
Wow who knew hands could be so beautiful!
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It’s strange, I find that I notice so much more detail and I look more closely at life when I have my camera with me. I’m constantly looking at things as if I were looking through a lens and thinking about how each image will impact others who see it.
It’s been somewhat life altering.
Thank you
how beautiful, and you captured them all so sweetly!
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Thank you, Linney
xo
Just beautiful Rachel!
Thank you, Shannan. xoxo
I love all of them. Beautiful.
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Coming from you, someone whose photography that I admire so much… that means a lot.
beautiful pictures
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Thank you, Amber.
Hands say so much about a person. Those pictures are just gorgeous. Wow. Worth a thousand words for sure!
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KAT!!!!
Thank you xoxox How are you? I miss you! i’m a terrible blog commenter.. forgive?
Granny’s hands made me cry! I miss mine so.
Oh D,
You made me tear up… I love mine so and know she’ll be gone too soon. Part of her already is.
LOVE you.
I love the comparison of the different ages. Beautiful!
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Thank You. That is one of the reasons these pics all struck me, too. I now am on a mission to capture my family’s hands and feet at all stages.
Ahhh, I love pics like that!
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I love you and your wife xo
Just love.
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*swoon* Thank you.
Gorgeous pictures. I wish my grandma was still around so I could capture the little things, like her hands. Stirring pictures.
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I’m trying to remember to catch all of life that I can so that I have no regrets of not living it enough or capturing it enough, later on…
Beautiful. A story for the ages.
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awesome….they are soul reaching pics
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Those are great shots. I never venture out of my usual “here’s the kid’s face” shots. I should do that more often.
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There is a tombstone in the cemetery where my grandmother is buried that has a poem on it that I have always loved. I memorized it early on but it means more to me as time goes on.
This is it (as my memory serves me)
My mother’s hands have slaved for me
Have taught and fought and gave for me
Have made me wish that I could be
All worthy of her trust in me
My mother’s hands to me are more
Than all the foolish men adore
A simple tribute to something grand
I kneel and kiss my mother’s hands.
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I’m turning 50 in June. So, I’ve become enamoured with old people. Not that I think I’m there yet, but I’m getting closer! So, love the first shot particularly.