iHeart Faces Challenge {Wagga Wagga Portrait Photographer}

So it's time for another iHeart Faces challenge... This week's theme is of course, Halloween Dress Up!

Halloween isn't so big around here, and although I have talked for weeks about getting some things together for a themed photo shoot, for one reason or another, it just hasn't happened!  So, lucky for me, this challenge also allows for any kind of dress ups for those of us who just don't do the Halloween thing!!

For once, I didn't immediately know what photo I would use for the challenge, as two came to mind... Shall it be Ella as Snow White, or Maddison as a fairy?  I do love them both.  Then I thought about it a little more... that my choice for these challenges has never been so much about the image as it has about the capture... about the meaning of the photo...

Maddison's portraits were just days before her 7th birthday...

Months after she had moved with the family interstate...

months after we had last laid eyes on her... cuddled her... kissed her forehead.

In those months, Maddison had blossomed into an amazingly warm and gentle soul...

a young lady...

and I wanted to celebrate that.

So off we went, to an abandoned house...
Camera in hand...

In a field of weeds...

with her wings upon her back...

the sun on her skin...

and the wind in her hair...
So delicate... Ladylike... Beautiful...

And I captured so much of who she has become...

In just one lonely image...
This is Maddison...
Through my eyes...
Through my lens.