HP Photo Books are perfect for sharing memories. In these interviews, mom bloggers share their thoughts on photography and the photos that captured the special moments of their lives.
In her blog, Mocha Momma, Kelly chronicles her life as a mother, wife and high school guidance dean. She often touches on issues of race, from the personal, professional and political perspective, but one of the most compelling things about her blog is the warm and loving way she writes about her family, and particularly her three children, 21-year old daughter Mallory and teenage sons Mason and Morgan.
Kelly first got interested in photography when she was doing a lot of scrapbooking, and realized that her enjoyment was more about the photography than the scrapbooks: "I started noticing other people's photos, and great shots, and decided I wanted good pictures more than I wanted pretty pages."
Initially, she borrowed her husband's old camera and six years ago she got her first digital camera, a 5 megapixel point and shoot. Now she uses a digital SLR and hopes to upgrade it in the near future.
When she first got her digital SLR, she found herself trying to take pictures of everything. One day, she went down to a new skateboard park in town and saw a bunch of tough looking high school guys hanging around: "Typical teenagers with long hair, jeans with holes and of course, the iPods. The embodiment of the skater. I asked them if I could take some action shots and they couldn't have been nicer. They just asked me to try not to get in the way because they didn't want me to get hurt. It was amazing. Through my lens, I saw more about them while they were skating than you'd ever imagine from just looking at the outside."
Kelly loves taking pictures of her kids, even if they don't always love it back. She says it is hard to get her boys to sit still. She finds herself taking covert pictures. For example at this year's Homecoming, she used her long lens to capture her son Mason, who plays trumpet in the band, as they were getting ready to play. "The picture looks like who it's supposed to look like, which is why I liked the skater guys too. Not tough. Tender."
One of her favorite pictures that she didn't take herself was the first time her kids got her a present that wasn't bath salts: "A friend, also a budding photographer, conspired with the kids to take pictures of them when we went to her house and the resulting collage was my Christmas present. They really put some effort into it."
Kelly loves pictures from a kid's perspective, and is very proud of her children's efforts in this effort. She reports that Mallory, who is studying interior design, is a natural photographer and her younger son Morgan has become her photography partner: "I grab my camera and he grabs his. If we have a picture of me, it's because he took it."
She doesn't scrapbook anymore, but now that she has all these pictures that she has taken herself, she's looking forward to putting them into an HP Photo Book: "I've been collecting a folder of interesting shots and favorites, and now I have way to showcase them."
Print or Share online?
"All the photos on display in my office are mine, which visitors often can't believe, but most of my sharing is digital. I expect to do more printing this year because one of my colleagues takes senior pictures for kids who can't afford professional fees, and I plan to help out.
We use our cameras to chronicle the lives of our children, but there are many kids who have never seen a picture of themselves."
Photos by Kelly, Mocha Momma Interview by Susan Getgood
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Kelly first got interested in photography when she was doing a lot of scrapbooking, and realized that her enjoyment was more about the photography than the scrapbooks: 
Kelly loves taking pictures of her kids, even if they don't always love it back. She says it is hard to get her boys to sit still. She finds herself taking covert pictures. For example at this year's Homecoming, she used her long lens to capture her son