Let's get REAL!

I saw this on a fellow photog's blog post and had to share. This is so true. Please read. Words from Kaydee Kelly...

So, the other day, Apple released a few new options for their phones.  We are apple folks, we have iPhones, iPads, iPods, MacBooks, AppleWatch, you name it.  We LOVE our apple products!  Are they cheap?  Nope, but why should they be?  You get so much out of your purchase.  Let’s talk about their stores!  I love their set up!  They have everything out on display for you to play with. You are ALWAYS greeted with a smile and a how can I help you?  They do everything they can to make your experience with them as enjoyable as it can be.  You can make sure that if something happens to your devices that they are protected, what a wonderful thing!

The iPhone X retails at $999, the iPhone 8plus is $799 and the iPhone 8 is $699. And those are for JUST the basic memory that comes with it. So, upgrade those bad boys and add another few hundred on.  Many of you, my clients and potential clients will be lining up to preorder it without thinking.

Now, I challenge yourself to think about how long this phone will last?  2-3 years?  Probably, after those few years it will start to get a little wonky, maybe not work exactly the right way and then, well, you’ll replace it.  Another $1000.

Let’s shift gears, you are about 3 months away from welcoming your first, second, third (or more!) child into your family.  These are moments in your life that are IRREPLACEABLE.  You don’t get second chances.

From birth...

to three months 

six months

nine months

to their first birthday

So much changes over the course of the first year, isn’t that worth just as much as the new iPhone X?  No, I take that back, it’s not worth just as much, it’s worth MORE.  A heirloom album full of your baby’s newborn portraits, or full of portraits over his or her first year will last a LIFETIME. Guaranteed. Does your iPhone have the same lifespan?  In 20 years, when your baby comes home from college, will that phone full of snapshots be working?  Will you know where it is? Will you be able to buy a charger for it so you can hopefully just take a glance at those photos? Will he or she even ask for it?

So here is my challenge to you, what are YOU making a priority in your life? Is it your phone, a purse, new shoes or is it EVERLASTING memories of your family?

Ask me how I can find the exact products that work for YOU and YOUR family. How can I preserve YOUR family’s memories. Ask how my clients feel when they walk into their consult and there is fresh fruit for them along with a welcoming hug. Ask them how it feels when they see their images for the first time on a big screen TV with the perfect music as they watch portraits of their baby’s nose, feet and fingers flash up on the screen. Ask them what their emotions were when they saw their first ever family portrait holding their baby.

Ask them what it’s like to walk into their home and see their portraits up on their wall every single day.  Or know that at ANY MOMENT, they can walk over to the bookcase, take out the beautiful album box and flip through their heirloom album that holds the precious memories of when their baby was so small he or she fit curled up into their arms.

I’m sorry, but no iPhone, iPad or MacBook can EVER do that for you. It just can’t, plain and simple.

So, I ask you again, what will you be investing in?  A piece of technology?  Or a way to forever memorialize when your children were young and depended on you, looked up to you, didn’t care whether your hair was washed that day (or that week!) and just plain worshiped the ground you walked on.  To me, those memories are priceless, and worth more than any piece of technology in this world.

Contact me today, let me show you how you can have all of this for years to come.

- Kadee Willard 

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