NIKON D800 + NIKON AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G

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As I walked downstairs to throw in a new load of laundry, the light felt like magic.<br />There was something haunting, beautiful ,almost important about the way the sunlight had pushed it's way into the dark unfinished corner of our basement. <br />As if it were saying: 'This, right here, this matters' I couldn't help but think about all the paintings and illustrations of women going about their days.<br />Women preparing meals.<br />Women bathing babies.<br />Women gleaning fields.<br />Women feeding children.<br />Women washing, sewing, folding, hanging laundry.<br />Women tenderly caring for their young ones.....<br />Moms doing what moms do.<br />And even though it's very easy to see why we as mothers often feel underappreciated and under represented; I think about these works of art and I can't help but think of them as the most accurate depiction of what women have always been.<br />The quiet humble strength, moving moments forward.<br />These painters saw beauty in what was an 'everyday normalcy'<br />They saw art.<br />They saw strength.<br />They saw truth.<br />And they wanted to share it with the world.<br /><br />This shot was a little bit of a tricky maneuver, I wanted the bright light that was pouring down our staircase, (which is very dark and adds so much for moody portraiture) so I had my tripod setup on the staircase sandwiched between me and the wall, I had my camera angled right over my shoulder so it would feel like she was looking right up at me (the lens {of course she wouldn't look at the lens but the effect was still the one I was hoping to catch}).