OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! I almost fainted when it got delivered! I have been drooling, no, obsessing, no, fantasizing, no, coveting - yeah, that's it - this lens for soooooooooooooooo long. I saved and saved and saved and was finally able to get it for my christmas gift this year - a couple months early! It's the Canon 35mm f1.4L USM prime wide angle lens. Dreamy. It's the PERFECT indoor lens. Great for wintertime.
So, naturally, I tear open the box with my bare hands (not really!), throw that puppy on my camera and grab my poor unsuspecting kids who are trying to PLAY and not have to POSE thankyouverymuch... My son is running around wearing only his superman underwear and my daughter has just a skirt and diaper on. Poor kids. I don't even take the time to put clothes on them. I plop them down in front of a sliding glass door in our kitchen and just shoot and shoot and shoot. My son starts out a bit demure (he's been through this before...) but a little competition of who can make the loudest nose snorting sounds (I bring out the big guns when I'm desperate people) brings on the hearty laughs. My daughter is totally not into it (see below) until I sit her on my lap and hold/shoot the camera with one hand looking at us. Then she's ready to rumble. Notice how , at the very end, she tries to cover the lens with her hands just to mess with me, she knows I sorta flip out when she goes for my camera. And then she was totally not interested in my lovin' either. But throughout it all I just have this big goofy grin on my face despite the total lack of cooperation cause, well, I gots me my lens. Ergo = I am happy.
This post really is to show that you don't need plenty of planning, or fancy clothes (or hardly any clothes apparently!), or a nice background (my kitchen is horrendous and my tile is literally straight from the 70's...) or even cooperative subjects to get nice pictures. I turned on the camera, plopped them down and went with the flow of what was happening. I'm not saying these photos are good neough to grace my walls but they are fun to look at and will do quite nicely in the baby albums telling a great story :) So if you're waiting for the "right" occasion to take pictures of your little ones, stop waiting and just take out the camera, get down on the floor, engage (or ignore!), and start capturing life as it really is. Life as you will keenly remember it to have been, warts, silliness and all :)
The undefeated grand master of nose snorting sounds....
So incredibly NOT into this mom....
the thinker...
starting to get more animated...
her "blankie" had to be in the picture too...