{"id":12040,"date":"2016-09-11T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2016-09-11T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T20:53:43","slug":"photos-of-the-day-sunday-fun-at-a-centretown-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/photos-of-the-day-sunday-fun-at-a-centretown-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Sunday fun at a Centretown park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> have a special affection for Everitt and Eileen and their parents. Not only was Everitt the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/five-lessons-i-learned-during-my-first-family-portrait-shoot\/\">my first-ever family portrait session<\/a>, but they are the stars of one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/17\/photo-of-the-day-its-rough-being-a-big-brother-sometimes\/\">favourite photos <\/a>of all time.<\/p>\n<p>When I met with Everitt and Eileen and their parents on a sunny Sunday morning at their favourite Centretown Park, however, Everitt wasn&#8217;t overly interested in our shared history. He was more interested in being a typical six year old boy, which means he was not particularly interested in sitting nicely for the camera. I&#8217;m pretty sure his mom had something a little bit like this in mind:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29495740642\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Ottawa family photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8547\/29495740642_214ef6e0e2_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Family photography at the park with E and E\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everitt and Eileen were more on board for a little bit of chaos disguised as family playtime:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29495740332\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Ottawa family photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8012\/29495740332_cc59f5c034_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Family photos at the park with E and E\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about your family, but this second one looks a LOT more like our reality! \ud83d\ude09 In the end, I think I won him over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29315510690\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Ottawa family photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8502\/29315510690_2f027a2e4b_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Candid photos at the park with E and E\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/28982144553\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"At the park with E and E\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/9\/8270\/28982144553_e1f3d90ec4_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"At the park with E and E\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember this photo? It&#8217;s is from two-and-a-half years ago, and I still laugh when I look at it. So much story about being the big brother to a new baby sister here, isn&#8217;t there?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/14228992593\" title=\"Ottawa family photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/3\/2905\/14228992593_72758a82cd_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"family photography at the park\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To my delight, the family loves this photo as much as I do, so much so that we thought we might try to do a &#8220;then and now&#8221; version &#8212; and IMHO it turned out as unpredictably adorable as the first one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29605945335\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Ottawa family photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/9\/8302\/29605945335_a7e517de80_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Photos at the park with E and E\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My marching orders with Everitt and Eileen are clear. Photos of climbing and cartwheeling and running and laughing? No problem! Photos while sitting still and posing pleasantly with your sibling? Not so much. Noted! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a special affection for Everitt and Eileen and their parents. Not only was Everitt the subject of my first-ever family portrait session, but they are the stars of one of my favourite photos of all time. When I met with Everitt and Eileen and their parents on a sunny Sunday morning at their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/photos-of-the-day-sunday-fun-at-a-centretown-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos of the day: Sunday fun at a Centretown park&#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":[97,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothership-photography","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040","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=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12044,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions\/12044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}