The Little Diva
In total desperation, we have resorted to the ten minute mini-shoot "quickie". This is as much time as we can get shooting me, before the little two year-old Madam detects that we doing a shoot and rushes shrieking into the studio : “Dada, Picture, Me, Dada Picture, Me!”
She has taken to wearing pink and glittery girly rings and bracelets both day and night (“pretty, pretty”), and insists that she has her very own Personal Photographer who must shoot ONLY HER in her prettiest dress (or in fact any pink ensemble as long as she is wearing her jewellery). If she detects (with her supernatural sensory abilities) even a whiff of a shoot going on, she shrieks like a banshee and rushes in like a mini-tornado, hurls herself onto the grey backdrop, face down, and after a 5 minute tantrum-from-hell (which we actually do try to shoot around), she sits up calmly, pivots gracefully into a regal pose, and says “Cheese” in her best girly voice.
At this point, we have lost the plot, and wearily give up in favour of a cup of tea.
We have taken to sneaking into the studio at opportune times when she is asleep to grab as much time as we can with the camera (the studio is just next door and we are all keeping a beady eye on her). But she seems to have a subconscious photographic detector alarm which goes off even when she is asleep, and wakes her up as Mistress Hyde who is exerting the full force of her considerable willpower to be the absolute centre of attention at all times.
Clearly we have created a monster. But a very cute monster nonetheless. And it is difficult to resist the charms of a pretty girl, as we all know.
And talking of pretty girls, here is an image of Kate taken earlier this year on Rich's old camera, the 350D. This was taken on the first backdrop we ever had, which was a pretty awful shade of purple, but despite this the lovely Kate looks really elegant.
She has taken to wearing pink and glittery girly rings and bracelets both day and night (“pretty, pretty”), and insists that she has her very own Personal Photographer who must shoot ONLY HER in her prettiest dress (or in fact any pink ensemble as long as she is wearing her jewellery). If she detects (with her supernatural sensory abilities) even a whiff of a shoot going on, she shrieks like a banshee and rushes in like a mini-tornado, hurls herself onto the grey backdrop, face down, and after a 5 minute tantrum-from-hell (which we actually do try to shoot around), she sits up calmly, pivots gracefully into a regal pose, and says “Cheese” in her best girly voice.
At this point, we have lost the plot, and wearily give up in favour of a cup of tea.
We have taken to sneaking into the studio at opportune times when she is asleep to grab as much time as we can with the camera (the studio is just next door and we are all keeping a beady eye on her). But she seems to have a subconscious photographic detector alarm which goes off even when she is asleep, and wakes her up as Mistress Hyde who is exerting the full force of her considerable willpower to be the absolute centre of attention at all times.
Clearly we have created a monster. But a very cute monster nonetheless. And it is difficult to resist the charms of a pretty girl, as we all know.
And talking of pretty girls, here is an image of Kate taken earlier this year on Rich's old camera, the 350D. This was taken on the first backdrop we ever had, which was a pretty awful shade of purple, but despite this the lovely Kate looks really elegant.
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