Maggie had school pictures a while back and this week we got the proofs back. And they are adorable….just a standard school picture headshot, but really, really cute. The photographer invited siblings to come along and get a picture taken together, which we did. Those of both the girls are just as cute, both smiling, happy and a bit matchy-matchy.
I take a ton of pictures of the girls, as documented here, but most of them are unposed and us living life, my favorite kind of pictures. My version of them posing for a portrait is throwing down a quilt and hoping that I get a couple cheese-ball smiles. It usually works and I’m happy.
I’ve only ever taken Maggie to a studio to get her pictures once and the bright white background and wicker chair they put her in, she was about a year old, really didn’t fit with the aesthetic that I like to look at, so it wasn’t something I made time to do again.
But these school pictures? They’re too much. So, I ordered some and grandparents, aunts, uncles….whomever can have their wallet size shot of the girls to carry around and flash bragging rights. It felt strange to pay, what I consider, an arm and a leg for prints, but it documents the girls, and Maggie’s first year of school, in a different setting.
And while I wait to get those images back, I bring you outtakes from our last ‘portrait session’ in our back yard on the first day of Spring.
Enjoy.
