One of my month to month clients referred me to the beautiful Linda Coppede who wanted to take some pictures of her two daughters at their stunning home tucked away in one of my favorite towns, Colts Neck, NJ. As I drove around the circle path and parked my car, I kept thinking about the sun and where the best light would be at. The backyard awaited us as the beach waits for the morning sun to rise and brighten up it’s shiny waters and warm it’s sand. The Coppede family’s backyard is an oasis of greens, flowers and lovely waters and there home stands there strong and big protecting it’s home away from home backyard. But what caught my attention the most wasn’t all the nature splendor not the gorgeous chandelier as I stepped into their home but was their memory wall. Linda told Madeline, the eldest daughter to show me  a  wall adjacent to her steps going upstairs and there there were handcrafted frames and some shots of Madeline and Cristina growing up and of the family overall. It was not a crazy wall or house of pictures as one sometimes sees in proud parents and grandparents houses, it was elegant and yet simple but it was special. Special to me at that second I realized soon one of my pictures would be going up that wall and it would become part of that home, part of their lives, part of the memory being written right now, part of something they would always stop to look at and would have a special place in their hearts. And it hit me that I am a memory builder and how honored and blessed that makes me feel. Here are some of my favorite shots of the girls, Linda and her funny parents who kept applauding at their favorite poses while taking pictures of Linda and the girls.