Help Us Spread the Word!!!

It's CONTEST TIME!!!


In effort to more effectively advertise our upcoming Fall Portrait Session with Miss Lala and the Arts @ West Cobb, we are offering our friends and family a prize for helping us spread the word!

The Prize?   A $25 Visa Gift Card!

Of course, the card can be used anywhere, including at here for even more off our already half-priced sessions!  ;)

The contest?   1. Post a comment here about your favorite childhood memory for one entry!!

Then for additional entries:

2. Mention our contest on your blog and/or Facebook account! Just be sure to link back to DulceLightPhotgraphy.com or 

@Dulce Light Photography on Facebook, then comment on here with a link to your post so we can keep track! 

(Typing @ in front of a facebook profile's name will link to them, notifying them of your comment.)

3. Follow our Blog and Like our Facebook Page! All followers and facebook friends receive an additional entry!!

Each entry will be compiled into a numbered list and a winner will be chosen using Randomizer.org on 

OCTOBER 22 (Date of the Fall session;).  Every entry gives you another chance to win and helps us get the word out 

even more about our fun Fall Portrait Session! 

We will be honored and thrilled to thank you for your help with the Visa Gift Card! 

The winner will be mentioned in a future post and notified via email.

We can't wait to hear all about your favorite childhood memories! It will be so fun! Thank you for supporting and helping Dulce Light Photography!!!

Time in a Bottle

When I was a little girl, my mom and I had two songs we called "our songs."  One of them was "You've Got A Friend" by James Taylor and the other was "Time In A Bottle" by Jim Croce. To this day when I hear those songs I get swept away to those moments in time. 

There are two vivid memories that stand out to me regarding these songs; these are the ones that especially come flooding back upon the first few notes of either song:

The first was right after we moved and I started a new school for 1st grade. I felt so alone and scared; I was painfully shy. It was recess and I remember sitting on top of the monkey bars alone, crying and singing the words to "You've Got A Friend" to myself, willing my mami to hear them and come rescue me:

"When your down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights.
You just call out my name,
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again...."

This song reminded me that she wanted to rescue me, even when I knew she couldn't. Just remembering that would make me feel better.

The other memory is when I was trying on her clothes and modeling them around the house, she got tears in her eyes and said
"if only I could save time in a bottle," and started singing that song to me:

"If I could save time in a bottle       
The first thing that Id like to do       
Is to save every day       
Till eternity passes away       
Just to spend them with you..."       

       Of course, when you're little you take everything literally, so I asked her what she meant by "saving time in a bottle" and how can someone possibly do that? If she could tell me how, I'd do it for her since she wanted it so bad!

Oh if I only knew how quickly time would pass, and what she meant by that. Now I find myself saying the same thing to my three little ones, and wishing I could find a way to keep time in a bottle. Maybe that's why I love photography so much, it is a way to freeze time and keep it forever. I try to take mental "snapshots" every day of those fleeting moments, but am always so thrilled when I capture them on film. This is what drives me, and why has become one of my biggest passions. But I know I owe it to my mom for making so very aware that nothing lasts forever. I think most kids (& grown-ups!) don't understand that until it is too late.

So Mami, thank you for teaching me to savor the little moments, even when I didn't understand.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!

And to all my mommy friends... remember everything your child does is a phase- the good ones and the not-so-good ones too- and they will (all too soon) pass, so try not to rush any of them. Focus on moments: just get through the tough ones and look forward to that inevitable yet fleeting next good one, and when it arrives, freeze it.
Then, save that moment in time in a bottle. ♥

(or a frame, LOL!)

It Matters to This One...

 So I practiced taking some natural light pictures today, and this one turned out to be my favorite of the day. It reminded me of one of my favorite stories is the one about the little and the starfish. Have you ever heard it? If not, it goes like this:

"A little boy was walking along the shore picking up starfish and throwing them back into the sea. A man walks up to him and asks him why he is even bothering, he can never save them all, so it doesn't really matter. And the little boy replies 'It matters to this one' and tosses one more back into the ocean."

There are so many reasons I love that story. I love that the little boy's spirit was undaunted by the older gentleman's doubt. I love the boy's perspective that all that hard work was worth it, even if only to save just one.

Makes me think...   how about you?