The things we do...

So I have had the priviledge of tagging along with this incredible photographer Amelia (http://www.mintandsage.com/) and after helping her with her holiday mini sessions last week and then the Promiseland school pictures this morning I started wondering if people truly understand what photographers do to get the pictures and images that you see and go awww that is so sweet.....Really what is happening is someone is jumping up and down yelling and clapping their hands, throwing something at the kid, explaining that "Blue Dog" needs to take a nap now and can't be in the picture or my new favorite..bribing with tic tacs. One of Amelia's clients had brought tic tacs for her kids and we found it to be the best bribing tactic (notice that tictac is tactic switched around). It is not huge and messy like a sucker and it doesn't make the kids cheeks look like a chipmonk chewing a huge wad of candy.
I came across these as I was editing and I normally don't include these but they just needed to be shown......
Sometimes my best assistant is a tiny little Dora...

And sometimes Elmo decides to stop by and help me out a little bit....
and sometimes you just have to resort to whatever you happen to have stuck in your camera case....

Fields and Schroders I am SOOO close to having your preview up!!!!!!