Yes, my inner movie-geek is showing and I’m not ashamed of it!  Don’t worry,  I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing since Jennifer Gray bought herself a new nose and dropped off the face of the Earth.  Moving on people!  In a blog I did a couple….um…blogs ago, I explained about some special people from Detroit, well, Ferndale/Farmington Hills area.  The Burke / Makins family.  Great people, good times right?  So Kristen asks if I would do some baby pictures and I of course was happy to accommodate her and baby Landon.  After many emails and scheduling conflicts, we finally confirmed the date and I headed up to Ferndale.  My planning was monumental, I printed mapquest like a champ and put gas in my car.  I figured everything else should fall into place, well somehow I didn’t make it to Ferndale….immediately, no no, I wanted to hit a detour that involved driving down Gratiot which I noticed the area’s excessive use of plywood and iron bars to “decorate” their homes and businesses.  Kristen greets me at the door and I get all the equipment in the house.  One thing I’ve learned about parents and babies while trying to take pictures… there is the way you WANT it to go and the way it’s actually going to happen.  I try to explain this as best as I can during our time but it never fails,  the parents start to get nervous and worry that the pictures won’t turn out.  I’m not going to lie,  it’s not easy taking pictures of a baby that doesn’t want anything to do with you or your entertaining faces and noises.  Parents are huge participants with this in helping make the baby smile or at least look in a certain direction.   I think Kristen and Andy both sprayed me a few times while trying to make noises that involved sticking their tongue out! haha I did tell them to get right behind me so Landon would look up, so it’s my fault Kristen! ;D  Over all,  we tried many different tactics during the shoot to be entertaining and had a great time but he was unimpressed with 3 adults making noises and faces… well, you win some and you lose some! I do hope Mommy and Daddy enjoy the pictures but I also wish I would have gotten shots of Andy and Kristen making all those faces!

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