Yesterday, while daddy and Papa were out at the block working on what will be my new studio and Matt’s playshed, the kids and I hung out with Nana at their swimming pool. I’ve mentioned before the lengths I will go to to get that ‘perfect’ photo, so it shouldn’t be too hard to imagine me waist deep in water, wading around after the kids with $5000 worth of electronics in my hand. Yes, I’m that dedicated.
But for all the photographs I took, all the laughs, and squeals, and splashes I captured (some a bit too well), I’ve not ended up using a single one of those images for my Photo a Day project. Instead, I’m going for an impromptu shoot with Papa, as he arrived at our place for a much deserved dinner.
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Alicia-Rae, in all her quirkyness, takes a very long time to warm up to men she doesn’t know. Which in itself isn’t a bad thing. But because she only gets to see Papa for a few weeks a year, this normally classifies him as a stranger each time they come back to Melbourne. So Alicia-Rae has to get used to him all over again. I often feel sad for poor dad, who often has to deal with her running off to hide or burying herself in the carpet whenever they arrive at our place. But slowly, slowly she comes around. And with just a couple of weeks left before they disappear off into the wilds of Australia again, Alicia-Rae has finally decided that Papa is trustworthy and kinda fun after all. In fact she seems to have swung full circle these last few days and is clinging to Papa like a leech. So it was huge deal for me to be able to capture these moments of her and Papa. And I’m sure dad would confess to being a little bit happy as well.
And Jaedon, in his typical style, was lost in his own little world – much more interested in how the aerial worked, and what it actually was. Such a boy. And so the son of an engineer.
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Narrelle x