{"id":950,"date":"2010-05-21T14:27:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2025-01-04T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T21:27:08","slug":"livin-the-dream-in-tahiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/livin-the-dream-in-tahiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Livin’ The Dream In Tahiti with My Mom and My iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently got back from a 10 day vacation with my mom in French Polynesia<\/a>.\u00a0 It had been a lifelong dream of hers to travel there ever since she saw the 1951 film, Bird of Paradise<\/a>, as a teenager.\u00a0 Since my dad had no desire to spend 10 days in the humidity, I luckily pulled the short straw and got to go with her. \u00a0 Even though I took all my gear, pretty much the only camera I used was my iPhone. I think I was inspired by, Allison V. Smith<\/a> who’s been showcasing some beautiful iPhone snaps on her blog<\/a> and flickr<\/a>…love her work.<\/p>\n

Of course, I had this vision that while we were there, I would shoot all sorts of stock photos, maybe hire some models, scour every inch of the islands (Tahiti and Moorea) for the best shots, possibly to shoot a story..I wanted to make the most of my time there.\u00a0 And I did make the most of my time, but not in the way I had initially thought.\u00a0 Ultimately all I did was hang with my mom.\u00a0 Partly because I was too worried to leave her alone, partly because, well, we were on vacation, but mostly because I genuinely enjoyed spending all that one on one time with her.\u00a0 I will cherish that time with her more than I ever would the “perfect” shot.\u00a0 Sitting on the beach watching the sunset with her, while she gets a little tipsy from one pi\u00f1a colada, listening to her tell me stories about her life..that’s the stuff that matters.<\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned it before, my mom is not a fan of me pointing a camera in her general direction BUT, I can’t help it, I love photographing her.\u00a0 I imagine there is some psychological component as to why, but I’m not ready to explore that just yet.\u00a0 For now, I’ll chalk it up to the fact that I love her dearly.<\/p>\n

So here is a little montage of some of the shots I took of her with my handy 1st gen iPhone.\u00a0 Most of these were shot using the Hipstamatic App and a few were shot with the ShakeItPhoto App.<\/p>\n

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I recently got back from a 10 day vacation with my mom in French Polynesia.\u00a0 It had been a lifelong dream of hers to travel there ever since she saw the 1951 film, Bird of Paradise, as a teenager.\u00a0 Since my dad had no desire…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,12],"tags":[90,122,132,165,219,226,246,280,308,334,335],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","category-mylife","category-portraits","tag-colorado-photographer","tag-family","tag-french-polynesia","tag-iphone","tag-moorea","tag-my-mom","tag-photography","tag-seniors","tag-tahiti","tag-travel","tag-travel-photographer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}