Crack of Dawn

The girls are still getting up at the crack of dawn.  Sydney tip toes into my room at 6 am pretty much every morning.  Then the damn dog barks when he hears her and then he wakes up Sawyer!  Yes, this is my morning...every.single.day!  Since Daddy had the day off today, I decided at 6:45 am that I would attempt to get their Christmas pictures started.  I figured it would take at least two attempts to get something useful.  My gals don't like to sit still for pictures.  Go figure.  So at 7:15 we got in the car and headed right up the road to a really sweet spot.  The girls were freezing, and weren't into getting their photos taken.  But I did manage to get the perfect shots for cards. 

I usually love the morning light but cloudy/overcast days like today often have such a blue looking morning light.  So I wanted to take a test shot outside to see if a custom white balance would solve the issue with the color cast.  I asked Sawyer to come outside with me for a minute.  She was not happy.  She had just washed her hands and they were still wet so they were really cold.  She was ticked off and crying about how cold her fingers were.  Can you tell??  hehehehehe. 

So I got them dressed, tamed Sawyer's crazy morning hairdo and tortured poor Daddy before his first cup of coffee.  I did manage to get one good shot of each of them for a holiday card but most of them were outtakes as evidenced by the ones below!  My little camera ham.  At least she is cute.  Love the color, love the background, love my girls (don't love that I cut her toes off in the shot!).  Hopefully I can find a card template that I like!  Straight out of the camera shot...love the color.  Speaking of love, I am over 13,000 shutter clicks on a camera that isn't even a year old!  It has been a busy summer and fall season.