The Fleeting Beauty of Motherhood: Why Being in the Photo Matters. Family photographer Anna Dobrovolskaia | Richmond, VA
The Fleeting Beauty of Motherhood: Why Being in the Photo Matters. Family photographer Anna Dobrovolskaia | Richmond, VA
The Fleeting Beauty of Motherhood: Why Being in the Photo Matters. Family photographer Anna Dobrovolskaia | Richmond, VA

You love your new life, this season where you are their whole world. But in giving so much, you often have to pause your own dreams — not forever, but for a while. And yet — this is the time we miss the most. When they were small. When they needed you with every breath. When time felt slow but was quietly slipping away. This moment — this now — is already carries the weight of nostalgia, because it is already turning into memory. To be in the photo is to hold onto this now. To be seen in it. To remember how it felt.

To stay close to a moment that will never come again — but will always live on in a frame. This is why I choose to photograph these moments. Why I’ve created a series that captures that fragile, beautiful border between now and then — before it quietly slips away.



This is why I choose to photograph these moments.

Not just for the beauty — but for the truth they hold.

For the way a quiet frame can preserve the softness of a newborn’s breath, the curve of a mother’s arm, the halo of light that falls across a tired face.

These images are not just memories. They’re evidence.

That you were there. That you held them close. That you loved this deeply.

Each photograph becomes a thread, tying you back to the version of yourself that existed in this fleeting, sacred now.

Before the baby outgrew your arms.Before the days changed shape.Before then.

Because sometimes, we need to see ourselves again — to remember we were never lost. Just becoming.





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