Okay, so a couple weeks ago I experienced a 'first' in my photography business. Not my first celebrity session. Not my first $10,000 order. Not even my first [insert anything good here]. No, this isn't the kind of 'first' to be proud of. Quite contrary, it's the kind that's more likely to give me an ulcer and cause me to question - at least for a couple seconds - how (and possibly why) I ever managed to start my own business.
A couple of friends and long time clients - Robyn and Gary - had scheduled a session with me to photograph some wonderful images of their precious kiddos Emily, Shelby and little Luke. And capture some wonderful images we did. (Is it just me, or did that last sentence sound a little Yoda-ish?) I couldn't wait to get home and download the images because their family is ridiculously beautiful, and I was stoked to see all the amazing moments I remember us capturing.
As image after image came up on my screen, my excitement and anticipation quickly headed south and turned into a near panic attack as more than half the images were a little soft on the focus. To make a long story short and spare you the technical details, I think there is an issue with a lens I was using as a friend of mine has had the same issue with that particular lens when she has used it.
Well, if you're handed a bunch of lemons, you might as well make lemonade, right?... unless, of course, the lemons you've been handed are rotten in which case you should probably just throw them out or at the very least deeply discount the price of your lemonade. When I called Robyn to let her know what had happened, I could tell she was [rightfully] a little bummed, probably a little because of some of the images that didn't turn out, and I'm guessing a lot she and Gary now had to get three kids ready again, drive 30 minutes again, and basically do the same session... again.
Robyn and Gary are great, though, and they really were such good sports about the whole thing, and we made the best of the situation. On top of that, the blessing in this story is that I think we ended up with an amazing collection of images, some of which we wouldn't have gotten if the images from the first session would have turned out. Ahh... lemonade.
Emily, Shelby and Luke really are so precious... it's hard to pick favorite images from this session. Here's a couple that are near the top, though. Look for the slideshow later this week.
I just can't get enough of these kiddos. I was talking with Robyn on the phone this evening and little Emily and Luke took the phone from mom to tell me how much fun they've been having. Some day when I have kids, I hope they're half as sweet as these three.
Okay, so a couple weeks ago I experienced a 'first' in my photography business. Not my first celebrity session. Not my first $10,000 order. Not even my first [insert anything good here]. No, this isn't the kind of 'first' to be proud of. Quite contrary, it's the kind that's more likely to give me an ulcer and cause me to question - at least for a couple seconds - how (and possibly why) I ever managed to start my own business. 
Ok, so I just got back from finishing up the 2nd session in two weeks with the Boyer family (more on that later), and I had to laugh at this gem of little Luke doing his own unprompted version of Mardi Gras. Too funny.
