This is the fourth fall session I’ve done with this sweet family, and I am not at all ready for their daughter to grow up. But as I look at their photos, she is unmistakably looking older, and I know she will officially be a teenager really soon. A lot of time, growing more mature means that they take direction in front of the camera better, so there is that consolation. But Lucy has been cooperative with taking posing instructions since she was four, and she was able to hike a park trail at a faster pace than even some of my senior clients (shorter legs can still move faster than full-sized ones hampered by fashionable footwear). And while I would still call her very cooperative, there were a few reluctant moments. “Hold hands? Really?” But she did it for us anyway.
And she can do all sorts of gymnastics and cheerleading jumps now. She may have been able to do them before, but we had a nice grassy field to show off her skills. But not the right shoes, so she did them in her socks. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing, which is probably good, because I would have totally overplanned it with lighting, a special outfit, etc., and it would have been more pressure than she would have wanted to deal with on a Sunday afternoon right before a Halloween party. This way, we just took a few minutes and she just had wet socks to change when she got home. Actually, she had to change into a koala when she got home, but that had nothing to do with me.
Maybe I should have had her bring the koala costume. That would have made for a memorable jumping photo!
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