"Bahama Mamas" © Bonnie Feaster Chapa
16x24 and larger are Limited Editions.

I broke a cardinal rule of photography I was told with this image when I originally took this picture. I cut that Mama’s head off. Oh well, I wasn’t thinking of the rules when I turned around and saw 3 generations walking off the boardwalk out onto the beach at South Padre.

For a year, I worked on this trying to “make it better”. Correct the layout, crop, trim, resize……I almost trashed it. Because of what someone said and then one day I thought to myself, “Do you like it? Yes, a whole, whole lot. Then why do you care, Bonnie?” Let it be what it is and what it is meant to be. It is YOURS. That is enough.”

And when it’s MINE…..I see love. I see color. I see togetherness. I see a bond. When I see things in an instant, if I am lucky enough to have my camera at that time, I get what I get when I can get it. This is what I got: It’s mine and it’s fine.

This was instantly, “Bahama Mamas” (with no rules)

Break the “rules”.

Follow your gut instinct.

If you love it, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t because of some “rules”.

Finally, and forever to stay this way, the way it was meant to be in 2014 from an original photo taken by Bonnie Feaster Chapa July 2012, at South Padre Island, Texas.

Hand signed by Bonnie Feaster Chapa.

Open Edition Print hand signed by Bonnie Feaster Chapa.

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Printed on an ultra smooth matte finish archival fine art paper to give you the highest resolution and color saturation possible. Pigments are archival and resist fading. Prints come with a white border around them to make framing easier.

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