You'll see the minute you look at this little guy just what I mean! He is a Q.T. with unbelievable range of expression in a not-quite-one year old body.
At school they told us that when you are photographing a child that you should plan for one minute of focus-time for every year that the child is old. Based on those statistics I was looking at seconds! Instead I got two solid hours of playtime amongst the pumpkins with this little one (and his parent's of course).
One of the hardest things in the world for my Type-A personality is not being able to plan exactly how a photo session will flow. At the same time, the thing that I end up cherishing the most is that I can let the action take place and capture it frame-by-frame. I find that the smiles that shine the brightest on a little ones face are always prompted by the simplest of things... a song sung by a mom or dad, a chance to play in the leaves, or perhaps just the freedom to "army-crawl" across the lawn without constraint! It was a pleasure to capture just a few of these moments.
PS - Thanks to the Zaruba's for making the afternoon SO MUCH FUN! And a special birthday wish for the little guy who, as of Thursday, is the ripe old age of ONE!
