Just the other day a MUCH anticipated package arrived at my door (well, more like the lobby of my condo building) and I raced up to my apartment to tear it open. For any of you who remember a few posts back when I mentioned one of the highlights of my WPPI trip in March, the highlight I am referring to was hearing Jesh de Rox speak, and getting a taste of his personal philosophy on the kind of photography he does and the effect it can potentially have on us, and on our clients.

Well lucky me! (and hundreds of others who were inspired by his vision) He’s released an inspiring tool to help those of us who want to find more depth in what we do and that’s what I had been anxiously awaiting for the last three weeks. No, no, it’s not a fancy lense or camera, it’s not a special way to process photos or anything really tangible at all. (Except the beautiful packaging!) It’s called the Beloved Field Guide. (Beloved is a term he’s coined for this new approach to couples sessions) It’s his words, his vision written and illustrated by beautiful photographs of his own, guiding those of us who are interested along the path to something more.

This all sounds really hocus-pocus-y right? I know, but TRUST ME….it’s a good thing, and for any couple with sessions on the books with me in the next few weeks and months, don’t be surprised if I ask you to forget your notions of what your session will be and ask you to perhaps go in a different direction. (You can say no, but I promise its a good thing!)

I am so looking forward to putting some of Jesh’s methods into practice, making them my own, and hopefully seeing beautiful results unfold, not just in the actual photos I take but in the experience of each new session for both my clients and myself!

Isn’t it just so simply elegant?!?