{"id":2577,"date":"2013-05-05T14:53:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T18:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/?page_id=2577"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:28:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With her gentle manner and attention to detail, Laura creates natural portraits of newborns, babies, and families. She is a storyteller. Her images reflect love and connection &#8211; the story of family. Laura photographs families in Simcoe County, Wasaga Beach, Collingwood, Midland, Muskoka, Barrie and surrounding areas. Outdoor sessions take place at a nearby exclusive orchard and beautiful surrounding fields.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Moments are not created by a puppet master, no matter how fancy the set, the props, the camera. Ultimately, they are stirred to life, roused into light. We become the awakened ones; life&#8217;s moments are real, present to be cherished should we open our eyes and snatch the opportunity, owning the presence of mind to perchance preserve them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As mama to 7, I know how quickly time passes and just how fast they grow. A photo is a spark, a puzzle piece, a sentence in a short story, novella, or great and fabulous work. This is where my fascination with photography meets my love of storytelling. I know that as long as I live and breathe, I will love and remember.<\/em><em>&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pp-fb-like-btn-wrap\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/about\/\" data-share=\"true\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"like\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With her gentle manner and attention to detail, Laura creates natural portraits of newborns, babies, and families. She is a storyteller. Her images reflect love and connection &#8211; the story of family. Laura photographs families in Simcoe County, Wasaga Beach, Collingwood, Midland, Muskoka, Barrie and surrounding areas. Outdoor sessions take place at a nearby exclusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2577","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28407,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2577\/revisions\/28407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}