the gateway animal | minneapolis, mn family photography

 

Just when I thought the whole ‘I’d like to raise chickens’ idea was properly squashed…Korey brought it up again last night.

Korey:  I’m going to call a guy I know who raises chickens…I’m just gonna see how much work it really is.

Me:  Ummm, what?

Korey:  I just think it would be so awesome to have fresh eggs everyday…and the kids would love playing with them.

Me:  Are you joking?  We don’t even eat eggs very often…and the kids are not going to play with chickens…hello, bird-flu?

Korey:  You wouldn’t even have to do anything…maybe you could just collect the eggs in the morning…and put the chickens back in their pen before your customers come over for a session…I know~ you could sell the extra eggs to your customers!

Me:  (eyes bugging out of my head)  We are not getting chickens…chickens are a gateway animal…before you know it, I’ll have goats & cows on my porch.

Korey:  I wasn’t going to mention the cows yet…I thought we could wait a year or two for that.

Me:  Please stop talking.

 

What’s happening in my world?  When I met Kor he used to wear Purple Girbaud jeans, basketball jerseys, and listen to 2 Pac (while still maintaining his white boy from Buffalo image).  Now it’s all Carhartt pants, true value work shirts & Toby Keith.  I did not sign up to be a farmers wife.  So help me, if anything more exotic than a yellow lab shows up in my yard…shiz is gonna hit the fan.  Today he actually called me to tell me that he saw a sign for ‘Free Cute Goats‘ on his way to work.  Maybe chickens are the least of my worries.

 

Allrighty, back to Minneapolis we go for another family session…This was such a sweet family~I love them!  We had beautiful & warm (but crazy windy) weather this day, and the color around Cedar Lake was perfect!  Whenever I meet clients at a location I’ve never shot at before, I like to arrive early and scope out some good spots to shoot in.  I found an ideal little nook with perfect color and lots of shelter from the wind.  I went back to my car to wait for the family to arrive.  Just as they pulled in, a huge school bus drove up & parked in front of me.  No less than 45 high school kids poured out of the bus…and headed right for my perfect nook to work on a science project   Oh well, we made it work in a spot nearby!

I had to include this next picture of the family…their dad was totally into the whole ‘portrait taking‘ experience  Apparently, he’s kind of a big deal in the music industry…which REALLY made me wish I had cut a demo of myself singing…I would have slipped him a tape during our session.  I’m kidding, I don’t sing…I just wanted to use the phrase ‘cut a demo’…it felt good.