Collages
May 26th, 2011Sabrina and Tessa are different in many ways. One way is their reaction to my camera. When Tessa is paying attention, she hides from my camera. I truly have to catch her when she isn’t thinking about it. Sabrina has developed a new habit since I got my new camera. She immediately starts striking odd poses. I have to tell her to stand still and smile in order to get a semi normal shot of her. The other night, she was in the middle of asking me a question, noticed the camera in my hand (I was taking a photo of the broccoli for the post). She immediately stopped talking and started vogue-ing. Instead of clogging up your screen with 27 photos of Sabrina’s new vogue-ing habit, I thought I would make it one image.
And just to show it wasn’t an isolated incident, these are the photos I got while taking her last day of school photo. I snapped 2 that looked normal. The rest were like this.
And just to give Tessa a little equal opportunity collage time – proof she is momma’s girl…she loves her some pasta! She was begging like a baby bird with her mouth hanging open.
May 26th, 2011 at 11:19 am
Our 10-year-old daughter started doing that when the camera would come out at that age. She would still do it if I let her, but then I ask really nicely for her to give me a pretty shot and then she straightens herself out and I get an amazing picture. That’s a recent thing, so it only took 5-6 years to get a not-hamming-it-up picture from her.
May 26th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I feel your pain. Mine yells, ‘Wait! I havta strike a pose!’
Maybe they’ll settle down by Senior Prom season…