Somewhere Woody!

Last Sunday I had a shoot with little K. I know her VERY well (she's my cousin) ;). When her mum and I asked her where she would like her shoot to take place her response was "Somewhere woody". So me, mum, K's little brother T, K, and dog Lilly headed to Spring woods. This location is on my doorstep, and I know it well, so I was really looking forward to getting there and shooting some cool pictures.

We'd had snow the night before, and though most of it had melted, there was just enough on the ground in the woods.

K is an adventurous sort of girl, happier climbing trees and exploring the world. She loves wildlife, and is not afraid to get dirty. My kind of girl!! (She's also amazingly pretty and photogenic - not sure where she got those genes ;-p).

At the start of the shoot K was VERY nervous around the camera. I decided the best way to deal with this was to let her do her thing and just follow her with my camera clicking away. This method resulted in a lot of shots like this one:

K discovered a pile of old logs, and as she set about exploring, I really started shooting....

After a mini snowball fight K made a mini snowman (like I said not a lot of snow left, just enough)

We were shooting in the late afternoon, and as the sun started to set we got the most amazing light! By now K was more relaxed with the camera, as you can see...

On the way back to the car I asked K if she would hold her brother's hand. Lilly also wanted to be in on this action and we got the quintessential brother/sister shot

Mum wanted to get a shot of both kids and Lilly together, this proved an incredibly difficult task! NEVER work with children and animals ;). I know mum is probably going to kill me for this, but I couldn't resist sharing this out-take, it made us all laugh! (Poor T). 

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