{"id":11324,"date":"2015-12-01T07:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2015-12-01T07:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T12:23:18","slug":"photos-of-the-day-reindeers-and-christmas-jedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/photos-of-the-day-reindeers-and-christmas-jedi\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Reindeers and Christmas Jedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">H<\/span>ow do you torture a photographer? Send her two exquisitely cute families for Christmas portraits on the porch, and then make her choose just ONE for the photo of the day. I seriously couldn&#8217;t do it!<\/p>\n<p>First, these two dropped by. Little Miss was a little bit shy, and a lot three years old. Sometimes, that can be a disasterous combination, but in just a few minutes I had her warmed up like a fuzzy pair of favourite mittens. You can&#8217;t see from this photo, but these children have the most beautiful eyes. Hers are brown and soulful, and her brother&#8217;s are the most intriguing green and hazel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/23406143796\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Christmas portraits\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5695\/23406143796_4b09a531c4_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Christmas portraits\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It just so happens that the mom has the most spectacularly pretty eyes I&#8217;ve seen since my own mom&#8217;s eyes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/22803963334\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Christmas portraits\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/743\/22803963334_bb9be61dc4_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Christmas portraits\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then, through a most excellent coincidence of timing (also known as the Magic of Photoshop), this wandering reindeer happened to appear just in time for a cameo!<\/p>\n<href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/22805144893\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Christmas portraits\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/684\/22805144893_79c2c77c08_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Christmas portraits\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As if that weren&#8217;t enough cuteness for the day, I then had the pleasure of <s>working<\/s> playing with this trio who first appeared on the porch back in my first year of business. They are cuter than ever in their festive finery!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/23406316896\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Jedi family Christmas ;)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5660\/23406316896_29cd7d7790_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Jedi family Christmas ;)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The thing I love about repeat clients is that they know me well enough to know I&#8217;m pretty easy going, and no idea is too silly to try at least once. This is how we ended up with another reindeer cameo! (You&#8217;ll see this is a considerable refinement of my first attempt at this set-up from last year!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/23349940211\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Jedi family Christmas ;)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/687\/23349940211_52f3369958_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Jedi family Christmas ;)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got a last-minute email just before this session from their mom, who also happens to be a long-time reader of the blog. &#8220;Is it okay if we bring our Jedi robes?&#8221; How is that even a question? Of COURSE it&#8217;s okay if you bring your Jedi robes. And this happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/22805318073\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Jedi family Christmas ;)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/715\/22805318073_4d03ec9509_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Jedi family Christmas ;)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most! Fun! Christmas! Photo! Day! Ever!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you torture a photographer? Send her two exquisitely cute families for Christmas portraits on the porch, and then make her choose just ONE for the photo of the day. I seriously couldn&#8217;t do it! First, these two dropped by. Little Miss was a little bit shy, and a lot three years old. Sometimes, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/photos-of-the-day-reindeers-and-christmas-jedi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos of the day: Reindeers and Christmas Jedi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,97,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-holidays","category-mothership-photography","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}