“As adults, we are so conditioned that paying for high-quality professional portraits is something we do to capture our kids, our wedding, a pregnancy…basically anything other than just us being our everyday empowered adult selves. Now that I’ve done this, I realize how special it is. I think about my kids having this image of me when I’m older, and of their kids seeing it someday and realizing grandma must have been an interesting person back in her day.”