I came up with the bright idea of having our Christmas card pics taken by a girl who takes the pictures, designs your Christmas card for you & puts it all together for one very affordable price. Seemed like a win-win situation for me since I am incredibly indecisive & crunched for time.
Until she cancelled.
Pictures were supposed to be yesterday morning at 9:30 am & I got the email that she wasn't coming due to the weather (a few snow flurries!) around 6:30 am. I emailed her back right away & asked if there was another location we could go to that would work & her only solution was one day this week during daylight hours (completely out of the question with my work this week), or next weekend. Well, it takes her a week to do the Christmas cards so I felt like that would be cutting things a little too close.
My solution: find a way to get a halfway decent picture ourselves. After all, that was the whole purpose of me getting a nice camera for my birthday. (I can't even begin to tell you how many time I heard that from my husband yesterday).
After FREEZING our butts off at the parade (that the inlaws insisted we attend) & Mallory taking a nap that had to be cut short, we had about 30 minutes of daylight to get a picture.
The credit for these photog skills: Miss A Manning.
The location: my dad's cow pasture.
The weather: STILL FREEZING.
It's no secret that our little Miss Mallory is no day in the park to photograph. You are lucky if you can get her to make eye contact with the camera. A smile is asking entirely too much. This is what we came up with & I'm pleased considering...
This was my favorite pic of the day for Patrick & I. However, you can tell someone is not a happy camper!
Christmas card winner!
Good of P & Mal. Me....not so much.
Please note these pictures are completely unedited because I have no idea how to edit & these are uploaded from my Kodak gallery (not high res) because the originals are on my SD card which was left in my parent's computer last night. I've really got it together, huh?!
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They look great. We did the same thing on Sunday (thank you tripod and trigger remote!) and I was SO mad at how I came out looking, every time everyone else looked great, I was smiling with a closed mouth and I looked so OLD. (Maybe I am just old?) Then I TRIED to get the girls to take photos together, but they were done. DONE. So I maybe got one decent one. I'm trying again during Bill's vacation time during Christmas so I can get one for our living room wall.
ReplyDeleteIf you want, email me the high res. photos and I'll edit them for you. I promise a quick turn-around ;o)
hey girl! you should have called me! i would have done them and helped you throw together a christmas card.
ReplyDeleteput the pictures in a picasa album, i'll download them so they will not lose resolution and i can edit for you. just message me if you are interested! ;-)
they turned out great!
the final edited christmas card looks amazing. you girls ROCK! i just snapped the camera a million times.ha. it was LOTS of fun though :)
ReplyDeleteThey turned out really great! Ashley did a good job for a new-be! :O)
ReplyDeleteI still wish we would have had time to get one done this year cause before I know it Kyle will be gone from home!