Today is day 19 of Blogtober 2026 and today the topic is Share A Photo And Tell The Story Behind It.
Having a husband who was a photographer, we literally have thousands of photos. While I was thinking about this one came to my mind and I remember vividly the story behind it.
Being married to a photographer, it was never a surprise if he had an idea or he wanted a certain look. Sometimes he would have an idea in his head but with the lighting or whatever it would never be what he wanted.
Obviously, these are pictures of C from years ago. My husband had another idea and wanted to give it a try. He had seen the les miserable poster and wanted to do his interpretation of it.
This meant involving C, who at the time would very happily (more than me) be willing to sit for 300 hours while he messed with lights, reflectors and all sorts of settings.
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Picture The Scene
C was sitting in place on a stool chair we had for the breakfast bar.
I was standing next to her flapping something to get her hair moving and sweeping across her face
We were in hysterics, we al thought this is not going to work. But somehow it did, remember we were all crying with laughter at this point.
How he got the picture
- I had to start making the breeze for C’s hair to be windswept
- Hubby counted 1,2,3 then C had to stop laughing and look straight at him
- We did this a couple of times
No one would be able to tell the laughter from us all, the huffing and puffing from me as I made the breeze or my husband trying not to laugh as he counted down for straight faces,
These come up on my Facebook memories each year and always have been and always will be some of my favourites. Not just because I love the photo but the story behind it and how C just went to a straight face.
I find it funny that you were all laughing but he still managed to capture such sultry photographs. I’ve never had the patience to take photos, I’m very much a snap and go, despite attending workshops.
My husband did try to teach me but used to get so frustrated with me. I generally leave my daughter to do the pictures now as she has the same eye as her dad for the details. It does make me laugh that you would not know she was trying not to laugh
Awww. So much beautiful memories behind the photo and these are the things that we truly treasure. I realized that the photo itself is not the one that memorable but actually the story behind it is what makes it special.
The story behind it is the memory definitely, but helps they are some of my favourites of C
It’s really neat that he was able to tweak stuff around until he got the idea in his head in the camera. Bless C, being patient enough to deal with it!
This was a time C was happy to indulge her dad and his ideas. The results were worth it though
What great pictures! It is neat to learn about the story behind them. Funny how so much more goes into it than you would think, but that is the case for so many photos.
I can picture it so vividly and how we laughed, I a still shocked C managed to go straight faced that quickly and back to laughing the split second later
I love how it turned out and what a great story. My brother is a photographer, I have many pictures from when my children were young and he would have fun ideas for pictures.
We were all laughing it took a few goes but all of a sudden he got the perfect pic
I love this idea so much! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but combining that picture WITH the words is a wonderful idea.
Honestly I remember that being taken like it was yesterday
What a magical and vivid pic.
Thank you always been one of my favourites
omg how he was able to capture her eyes, fascinating to say the least wow…Very impressive.
I know the photos are stunning and always been some of my favourites
can see how this can be magical and special
We always laugh at it and the memories behind it are something that will be with me forever