I’m really excited to start work with this wonderful new non-profit organization that pairs newly adoptive families with photographers…Red Thread Sessions.  Photographers working with Red Thread Sessions offer photography sessions to families who are going through the adoption process for free or deeply discounted rates.  Whether it be a homecoming photo session, birth session, or a family portrait session…there is a session to fit the needs and preferences of the various adoptive families. When I heard about this organization, I knew that it was something that I wanted to get involved in and something that I could give back to the community through photography.  Right now we’re the only photographer in Idaho affiliated with Red Thread Sessions…so I’m just trying to get the word out about the organization so that adoptive families know that there is somewhere to turn to capture their first memories as a new family.

Red Thread Sessions was started in 2011 by two custom photographers in Texas and Maryland, both whom added to their families through adoption. Feeling the need in their communities to celebrate the beauty of adoption through photography, Red Thread Sessions was born. Soon after, many other photographers throughout the U.S. felt moved to donate their time as well. Red Thread sessions not only captures family portraits of new families, it also capture the precious, happy, confusing, exciting, exhausting, traumatic, life-changing time that is so often brief and fleeting in the life of an adoptive family.

I love how they came up with the name for this organization!  The Ancient Chinese Proverb is a commonly-used saying within the adoption community. It symbolizes the bond that all adoptive children have with their adoptive parents, even before they meet. An invisible “red thread” connects them to the people they are destined to meet. Although this Proverb truly relates to all people, it has a particularly strong connection to adoptive families and seemed like the perfect name for this organization.

So….if you know of anyone who is going through the adoption process…spread the word!