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Jaime Moore wanted to do something special to commemorate her daughter Emma’s fifth birthday. Instead of recreating Disney princesses, she decided to do a photo series of her daughter as five historical women who fought to get Jamie, Emma and a lot of other women the rights and opportunities they enjoy today. 

Story & Photo credit: Jaime C. Moore — full blog post below and here.

So my amazing daughter, Emma,  turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of  how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess. Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Disney Princesses, from their beautiful dresses, perfect hair, gorgeous voices and  most with ideal love stories in the mix you can’t help but become entranced with the characters. But it got me thinking, they’re just characters, a writers tale of a princess (most before 1998)…an unrealistic fantasy for most girls (Yay Kate Middleton!).
It started me thinking about all the REAL women for my daughter to know about and look up too, REAL women who without ever meeting Emma have changed her life for the better. My daughter wasn’t born into royalty, but she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that’s what REALLY matters. I wanted her to know the value of these amazing women who had gone against everything so she can now have everything. We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world……..so let’s set aside the Barbie Dolls and the Disney Princesses for just a moment, and let’s show our girls the REAL women they can be.

World’s Oldest Gymnast — Guinness World Records

We love Johanna Quaas’ inspiring story. At the age of 86 years Johanna Quaas is the world’s eldest gymnast and an inspiration to anyone at any age.

Johanna attributes her athleticism to not eating too much, not eating too little and eating lots of greens.

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The oldest gymnast is Johanna Quaas (b. 20 November 1925, Germany) who, at the age of 86 years, is a regular competitor in the amateur competition Landes-Seniorenspiele, staged in Saxony, Germany.

She performed a floor-and-beam routine on the set of ‘Lo Show dei Record’ in Rome, Italy, on 12 April 2012, where her record was certified.

Video credit: Guinness World Records

These beautiful photos are from behind the scenes of a documentary film being created about Alzheimers. There is something beautiful about the life of someone suffering from a disease that causes them to forget everything around them being documented forever. 

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Photos from a film being made about Alzheimers that was shot in Hilton Head, SC. I had my eyes opened when I was able to learn more about this horrible disease when I shot these photos. The author of the book in the first frame hired me to come shoot some behind the scenes images of the documentary being made. The focus is on the woman in the glasses whose name is Lou Ethel and her struggle with the disease. Her son is one of her primary caretakers and is also found in a lot of the shots with her. Most of the images were shot at Memory Matters in Hilton Head, SC. Anyways I look forward to being able to see the film and I hope it raises more awareness about this sad disease.