the Test Shoot

I love taking pictures.  It's no secret.  I would love to do it for other people one day, but honestly I just don't have the time I need to really devote to the "art" of photography and running a real business so I dabble in it for now.  And sometimes I do some pictures for people by very special request.  Well my neighbors have persuaded me to take Christmas card pictures for them this year since they have missed the opportunity to use some of the other local photogs around here.  I am a total push over so I agreed to do it.  Plus, I really love this stuff.  I'm just weird like that.  So I am doing 4 different families' pictures next weekend.  Crossing my fingers they turn out good.  But of course I couldn't offer to do pictures for people without doing a little test run with my own kiddos.  So I picked out some cute outfits for the little stinkers after school yesterday and loaded them in the car with bribes of candy and spent twenty minutes chasing Kye while getting a few pictures that were useful.  I am definitely going to need at least one other adult to help me take my own card pics this year.  I was exhausted after the twenty minutes keeping up with that wild child and trying to get some shots.  I honestly felt like I had just did some old Jane Fonda aerobics.  Here's the result...