Oh. myGosh.
The level of humility a photographer must have to be able to photograph small children is unmeasureable. Here she comes, all smiles with her bag of tricks. She places each child in their assigned spot asking them to place their hands this way or tilt their head ever so slightly.
Then the real fun begins. She at first begins small. Little cute noises she makes. Funny gestures. However, as the task of getting our children to all laugh at the same time becomes challenging she goes for the big guns. Socks on her head? Animal noises? Animal impersonations? Even I watched from an uncomfortable state somewhere between bewildered and horrified. The kids looked shocked and bemused inbetween their giggling. Somehow it all works. We all coo at the children saying "how pretty Bella, niiiice smile" or "Moshe are you cute? Tell the lady you're cute." Wes dances around trying to get the kids to laugh and I watch as they strive to plaster their best faked-to-look-natural smile.
I almost wish I could've hired a second photographer to take pictures of all the shannanigans. All the awkward things we do to try to get our kids to laugh or to look pretty. It would be way more interesting to see those pictures than the pictures themselves I think. In fact you really could make a photo collage - you know the frames that have three separate spaces to put three correlating pictures in - but instead you start with the pictures of the antics leading up that the classic pose. NOW THAT - I would pay for. :)
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