In addition to creating photos, I love to write and share ideas. Those thoughts go out through occasional emails (I promise I won't clog your inbox), and now I'll share them here too, so they have an actual home.

I want what I share to feel alive, honest, and worth your attention. Think of it as the next best thing to calling you up for a chat or sitting beside a stream and listening to your dreams.

Disclaimer: This is a bit of a silly goose post, but I do get to the point. Promise.

One of my spring resolutions was to become completely and utterly obsessed with myself. It's a work in progress, but one I think is worth seeing through. Do you think it's possible this might be the medicine we all need?

Okay, with that behind us, (and if you're still here, big thanks), I am officially declaring this Proof of Life series a stream-of-consciousness exercise.

Prismatic double-exposure portrait of a woman in her creative space, heart-centered branding photography

First things first, can we kill society's beauty standards?

I am so sick of being told I'm not thin enough, muscular enough, smooth enough, lifted enough, or generally enough. I mean, I just realized that I've been sucking in my stomach for thirty years. Ask a man if he's ever done that.

Black and white photo of a woman laughing with her hands raised overhead, captured in her flow, heart-centered branding photography

Woman in a white tee and light jeans sitting on a white chair in warm window light, North Andover branding photographer

One of my recent branding clients shared that she doesn't always feel conventionally beautiful while she is deep inside her work.

But beautiful to who?

Woman with mouth open with her hand lifted beside a window as a soft rainbow of light falls across the wall, expressive branding portrait, energy worker

Who decided beauty only exists when we are polished, posed, young, rested, contained?

What about the beauty of someone fully in her flow?

Expression | Movement | Devotion | Power

There's so much sacred in helping meet somebody there.

This is what Heart-Centered Branding Photography means to me. No manufacturing, just reflecting what's already there.

Long live the return clients.

Parents and two grown sons pouring sand between their hands at sunset, Massachusetts family photography

Being with a family I have photographed for years feels like a quantum timeline hop. When, for a little while, every version of them seems to exist at once.

The doddling toddler, the sprouting elementary school kid, the awkward teen, to the person preparing to leave home for the first time.

This year, I get to photograph five sets of kids I first met when I was their preschool teacher and they were four and five years old.

Fifteen years of connectedness.

I don't really have a tidy conclusion for this, only that this part of family photography unravels me and grounds me at the same time.

The orbit of return year after year, the remembering, the tangible proof that all of it was real.

Proof of Life.

Love to you and yours,

Seana

Beauty Orbit

The Stories Your Hands Tell.