Do you share my love of getting kids pictures taken amidst pumpkins lying in a muddy grassy area next to a busy street just so we can desperately feel "fallish". It is just plain silly! I dont know why I do it every year, but every year I am determined to get the perfect pumpkin patch picture. One year I went back twice, when the first batch didnt turn out - this was pre digital camera. I need a good pumpkin patch picture! It is necessary to my well being as a mother! But the why is what bothers me...and I cannot answer that question!
So yesterday we packed up and headed out, all the way across town to the "local" pumpkin patch! I gave my kids the talk- smile, look my way, move how I ask, look at the camera, be cooperative...it goes on. Than I promised them treats! You know cold hard cash if they would just give me my precious pumpkin picture I so coveted.
But alas, no "PERFECT" picture this year, I got some really cute ones. The kids did try pretty hard to be honest- they squinted and held their hands to their eyes as I moved all around in circles to get the sun behind them...do you know the sun doesnt move during the day but
my kids insisted it 
was coming from all directions! We got together pic and some separate ones. I am happy with them and the more I look through them to find a "perfect" one I disappointed with myself... I wish I was content with my pretty good pictures. It was mentioned that it wasnt understood why I dont find my kids beautiful, all their pictures are beautiful. That is not it, nor is it my intent. Of course I feel all three of my kids are absolutely beautiful and they are beautiful in all these pictures but that isnt what I have issue with. I simply wanted that one perfect shot. Sun blazing down but giving me the perfect light, glancing off their blond hair and perfectly highlighting their beautiful angelic faces. their faces slightly turned upward, each with their eyes trained on the camera - you know the kind of pic where you think you can see what they are thinking... hands folded and in the perfect spot so that everything looks right. Just a perfect shot...but that rarely happens. I know they are kids... I know. What no one u
nless you feel the same way as me seems to understand is how important pictures are to me! I remember because of pictures, they are like my journal. I love all the funny, crazy ones that remind me they are kids and what they are like in that moment! Those are great! I just everyone once in a while -the photographer inside that desperately wants to come out---sees an opportunity for a perfect shot and I try to take it. Do you know a lot of wedding photographers take thousands of shots to get 20 good ones! The perfect shot is hard, it is almost unattainable but once you get it! You have it forever! It is captured. It is unending. It is perfect. But I love my pumpkin patch pictures and will proudly post them...but in the back of my mind and I am still waiting for that perfect picture! Maybe the camping trip, or Christmas or just a day at the park???
So yesterday we packed up and headed out, all the way across town to the "local" pumpkin patch! I gave my kids the talk- smile, look my way, move how I ask, look at the camera, be cooperative...it goes on. Than I promised them treats! You know cold hard cash if they would just give me my precious pumpkin picture I so coveted.
But alas, no "PERFECT" picture this year, I got some really cute ones. The kids did try pretty hard to be honest- they squinted and held their hands to their eyes as I moved all around in circles to get the sun behind them...do you know the sun doesnt move during the day but
my kids insisted it 
was coming from all directions! We got together pic and some separate ones. I am happy with them and the more I look through them to find a "perfect" one I disappointed with myself... I wish I was content with my pretty good pictures. It was mentioned that it wasnt understood why I dont find my kids beautiful, all their pictures are beautiful. That is not it, nor is it my intent. Of course I feel all three of my kids are absolutely beautiful and they are beautiful in all these pictures but that isnt what I have issue with. I simply wanted that one perfect shot. Sun blazing down but giving me the perfect light, glancing off their blond hair and perfectly highlighting their beautiful angelic faces. their faces slightly turned upward, each with their eyes trained on the camera - you know the kind of pic where you think you can see what they are thinking... hands folded and in the perfect spot so that everything looks right. Just a perfect shot...but that rarely happens. I know they are kids... I know. What no one u
nless you feel the same way as me seems to understand is how important pictures are to me! I remember because of pictures, they are like my journal. I love all the funny, crazy ones that remind me they are kids and what they are like in that moment! Those are great! I just everyone once in a while -the photographer inside that desperately wants to come out---sees an opportunity for a perfect shot and I try to take it. Do you know a lot of wedding photographers take thousands of shots to get 20 good ones! The perfect shot is hard, it is almost unattainable but once you get it! You have it forever! It is captured. It is unending. It is perfect. But I love my pumpkin patch pictures and will proudly post them...but in the back of my mind and I am still waiting for that perfect picture! Maybe the camping trip, or Christmas or just a day at the park??? 
2 comments:
I know what you mean... if you're like me, you're always comparing these pictures to some taken another time when they DID turn out perfect. The endless clicks go on and on, all the while you're thinking, "If I can only get one as good as last year!" Doesn't matter that the one last year was a total fluke.
See, I thought all your pictures were really good. I guess we are always more critical of our own picture-taking abilities.
The pictures are very good Carrie! I love autumn pictures too and I think you did a great job with your pumpkin photos!
I like your new header too-very nice! :)
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