Angel photographed George and me more than a year ago and it took us all this time to round up her fam and find a time when we both could do a shoot. On top of that, I’m crap at getting a bunch of kids to smile for the camera (even really well-versed kids like Angels’), so I insisted we do a documentary family session – where I would photograph them doing some activity, pretty much how they would be doing it anyway. The trip to get the Christmas tree was born!
It was so cold. But they had one of those stick-your-face-in-the-slot things and I just love those.
I’m one of the tribe, so I had never witnessed this Christmas tree thing before. Sure, I’ve seen them in peoples’ houses and decorated a mini tree or two in my sacrilegious abode, but never saw the living-tree-to-decoration process. It is involved. Jeesh you people make it hard on yourselves! Mike had to saw the tree down.