Three years ago, my close friend Ashley had a baby girl named Emily.
Like many new moms, she bought a camera to capture her daughter as she grew.
The photos were fine at first. But when Emily began to walk and run, they turned soft and blurry.
Emily was growing up fast. Ashley was missing the chance to capture once-in-a-lifetime milestones every week.
Frustrated and short of options, she booked a local studio to take 'proper' family photos.
Hundreds of dollars later, the photos felt sterile and lacked her child's personality.
Worse still, her in-laws had not seen their granddaughter in over a year. Ashley knew they would feel the same.
Everything changed one evening when Ashley was browsing Facebook for a new photographer.
She found Iwona Podlasińska, a child photographer who was hosting a nearby workshop.
Ashley knew the basics of her camera, so she decided to give it a go—and wow.
The photos she took blew me away...