Every time we have our children professionally photographed, I feel like the photographer and the parents become a tag team with the children and it is eventually turned into a contact sport. Because our ladies are so spirited, I have found that we cannot do studio photography... It takes a very special kind of person to be able to get good pictures from such busy little people. With all of the commotion in most studios, and typically the limited time frame, we have a very difficult time getting them used to the photographer before we have to be out the door for the next person's appointment to come in.
I am very envious of the families who bring in perfectly dressed, beautifully-coiffed children and babies, posed perfectly and pictures turn out wonderfully on the first try. That is not my family.
Thank goodness we have some wonderful friends who are very talented in that area. Last night, one is being photographed, we are negotiating with the other one to get dressed and to stop crying, and we have a barking dog in the background. It was pandemonium. Then once everybody is dressed and we're almost posed, one of them is either in tears, or off playing with something else again. It's like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. There is a lot of bribery involved to get a few good shots. Thank goodness my friend is so patient.
At one point she was standing upstairs dangling a stuffed animal over the banister , my children who were supposed to be seated in a leather chair looking up at her, praying that she will just drop the toy and let them go back to playing.
Ah well. I guess I can't say my life is boring, right?
( I am attaching a picture I took of them trying to get them settled in during our session. Cute, but not settled.)
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