Back from my Ecuador trip and trying to make sense of what I experienced in my travels to all the orphanages, but most importantly WHY. I think back onto what I most desire to achieve for my clients with my photography; it is to demonstrate the connection between who you are as a family and deliver a finished product that is a visual reinforcement of your family’s connection, the sense of your family – to admire, enjoy and cherish that particular time in your lives.Then, when I fast forward to my time spent with not only these wonderful children and the people that volunteer their time to create this sense of family – I realize that these children will never have these images or hear the story of how their mum realized they were pregnant for the very first time or have maternity images anticipating their arrival, or see in an album that amazing growth of their first year, or hear about their two-year-old tantrums with them being so fiercely independent.  These children would not hear the story of their birth at every birthday (as my Mum recounts each year).  Or have those monumental pictures: first day of school, vacations, goofy sibling images, dressing up in Halloween costumes, blowing out candles on birthday cakes, those fabulous missing front teeth. HOW could I NOT want to go to Ecuador and give these children images to have so they remember who ...