Some years back, I was travelling with my family for our annual road trip through the Czech Republic. My father and his wife, my brothers and our little family of three. Stella, our daughter was just a year and a half back then.

 

It was the final leg of our road trip, and we spent one night in Prague in a beautiful apartment in the centre of the old town.

 

At the end of this very hot day, I sat down by the window overlooking the square with Stella on my lap.

 

The air had started to cool down and it was slowly starting to get dark. Every ten minutes we could hear the horses on the cobblestones. Drawing tourist carriages through the street below our window. We sat there for a long time just waiting for the horses and watching them trot by again and again.

 

Our trip until then had been so busy. Exploring new places every day, our toddler running everywhere at all times, never taking a break. She was at that age where she hardly ever stayed still, and she certainly didn’t have time for cuddles. So, these moments spent with Stella sitting on the window sill in this gorgeous old place in Prague, felt so precious and fleeting. We hugged, kissed and talked, got excited each time the horse carriages passed by.

 

I wanted to soak in every moment.

 

My dad took a few photos of us while we sat there. And these pictures are some of the most precious photographs anybody has ever taken of me. Every time I look at them, I feel transported back to that evening and the way I was so overwhelmed with love and affection for my little daughter.

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I want you to have the same kind of images. Photos that feel so real and are so full of memories of precious moments, that they bring tears to your eyes every time you look at them.