My newest niece, Ashtyn, celebrated her first Christmas this year. We were sitting at Roy's parents and Jamie mentioned that she'd purchased a Christmas dress but never took Ashtyn for a formal photo session. She suggested that I do it and, of course, I'm excited to.
I left my Christmas tree up just for this photo shoot and arranged a small area to try to take pictures. This house is already loaded with people (my seven, and three nephews), so it's quite the mess with mattresses and blankets and Christmas toys all over the place. Just as they showed up for the pictures, Marina stops by to pick up her son and then decides to stay and participate in the photo session too.
Later, we get Ashtyn in place and everyone is hollaring at her to smile. Poor baby just looks around the room at all the people going nutso. So now we have fourteen people in the house and at least twelve of them are calling for Ashtyn to smile (funny, but ridiculous too). At one point, as I was crouched in front of Ashtyn to take photos, Marina squats beside me to try to make her smile. She's using the fuzzy ball on a Santa hat to tickle her nose, and it'gs working, but Ashtyn is looking at Marina rather than me. I reach for Marina's hand to move her towards me and Marina jerks back as if I was going to take her toy from her. What the...? I explain to Marina that I don't want her Santa hat, but that I'm trying to take pictures and I'd like her to shift only so that Ashtyn is looking at me. She's laughs. (She laughs at everything...) I shift so that I'm hovering over Marina, baby still not looking at me... Gotta love the chaos.
So I'm just shooting away, hoping that I get something good, because in all this craziness it would be a miracle. Then, as if nothing else could go wrong, it does - and my camera starts jamming. The baby smiles, I push the button, and nothing. Again, Ashtyn smiles, I push the button - again, nothing. Grrrr
Later, we get Ashtyn in place and everyone is hollaring at her to smile. Poor baby just looks around the room at all the people going nutso. So now we have fourteen people in the house and at least twelve of them are calling for Ashtyn to smile (funny, but ridiculous too). At one point, as I was crouched in front of Ashtyn to take photos, Marina squats beside me to try to make her smile. She's using the fuzzy ball on a Santa hat to tickle her nose, and it'gs working, but Ashtyn is looking at Marina rather than me. I reach for Marina's hand to move her towards me and Marina jerks back as if I was going to take her toy from her. What the...? I explain to Marina that I don't want her Santa hat, but that I'm trying to take pictures and I'd like her to shift only so that Ashtyn is looking at me. She's laughs. (She laughs at everything...) I shift so that I'm hovering over Marina, baby still not looking at me... Gotta love the chaos.
So I'm just shooting away, hoping that I get something good, because in all this craziness it would be a miracle. Then, as if nothing else could go wrong, it does - and my camera starts jamming. The baby smiles, I push the button, and nothing. Again, Ashtyn smiles, I push the button - again, nothing. Grrrr
The final photos coming shortly...
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