I have four favorite faces. These four favorite faces belong to the four people I love most in this world. This is one of them…
Last week was spring picture day at my kid’s elementary school. As a rule, I tend not to purchase spring pictures because #1) I’ve already purchased one set in the fall, and #2) I take enough pictures of my kids on my own that purchasing an overpriced set from school seems unnecessary. When I told my daughter, K, that I would most likely not be purchasing her pictures, she was somewhat upset … until I suggested having our own little photo shoot at home. That satisfied her. Hooray. Disaster and drama averted.
I absolutely love taking pictures of K. She is a beautiful model. Her only problem is that she has a hard time keeping her eyes open in the bright light. I have to get creative about how I position her, how I shoot and what time of day we do it in. I wanted to do her pictures when she was all dressed up for picture day but knew that by the time she got off the bus at the end of the day, we might not have the same look going. So we decided to do it quickly before school.
As I got set up, K gave me this advice … “Just take a bunch of them really quickly, mom, and hopefully you’ll get one that works.” So I did and after weeding through 99% of the shots I took, getting rid of the ones with her eyes closed, I found that I did, indeed, get one. This one. I love it.
But mostly I just love the face in it. And the heart. And the sweet spirit.
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