October insists on weekend adventures.
We oblige it's demands with pumpkins, blankets, black walnuts, apple cider & muscadine slushies, hayrides and mountain vistas, friends, family, and a nighttime fire.
I couldn't decide between these two photos this week.
The one where she's inspecting a black walnut on a hayride, arm thread through her father's, was my initial favorite. It's candid, and it's so her... lost in thought, pressed up against her favorite man, her little face always hiding behind that hair. She is the child that resists the camera, that looks away when she knows others are looking at her. This photo project has proven to be wonderful, but a constant challenge when trying to capture the girl behind the bangs.
The other photo is not really her at all. The contrapposto pose, hand on hip, staged in front of the sign we found in the woods would give the impression that this child is sassy and precocious. And she's not. But I chose it because it was her idea. All the way down to the suspenders. As though drinking a magical apple cider tenacity slushie, she walked over to the sign and said, "this should be your photo this week", and struck a pose.
And who am I to say no?
I love that this season brings out the best in all of us, contradictions and all.
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I am in love with the second one. So fragile, so sweet, so introspective, so her....
Ayu saw the first photo and said "what's the matter with Fiona?" and then "how's Neve's arm? recovered already?" So I told her I'll forward all her questions to Dera ;)
And then I showed her the second photo and her comment was of course; "yes! I prefer this one!!"
I always love reading your words behind the scene you capture.
I entered first and second opposite...sorry!
one day your children are going to look back at all these wonderful pictures and be incredibly grateful to have them. :)
I love both of these. I can see why it was hard to chose.
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