Wednesday, March 24, 2010

My Secret Smile Weapon

With all the gorgeous smiles that I get from Layton – like these

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you would think that he was the happiest child, so easy to coax a smile from for pictures.  WRONG!  The reason I get these great smiles -

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is because I have a secret weapon up my sleeve.  Whenever I am photographing Layton and he isn’t smiling for me, I just call Dallin over ask him to do something crazy.  I mean, really, who could resist laughing at a face like this:

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And so because Dallin pretended to let Mandy kick him and knock him down – which she found great delight in doing -

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I ended up with perfect smiles!

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It works every time!  I would hire him out to do this for others – but child labor laws and all that nonsense…..  Thank goodness those laws don’t apply to me – I get to use him as my own photographer’s assistant slave.

3 comments:

  1. Cute. I have a few of those helpers too.
    That picture of Dallin is great! You captured it perfectly (as usual).

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  2. So cute!! Amazing how funny someone getting hurt can be. Dallin sure can throw some crazy faces. Cassie is the queen of crazy faces in our family. :)

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  3. Those are some great smiles! I love that he has a teddy on either side of him along for the ride.
    I have to see if I can get Emma to try some of that to get Jake smiles - those are pretty hard to photograph (as you well know!)

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