The P. family have been coming to the studio religiously since Rach was just a little one. So when mom, Krista called (I think in October) to schedule their bi-annual session, I had no idea the comedy-of-errors that would have to take place before one of my favorite families would set foot in the studio.
The first call to reschedule came when Rach got a black eye. I can't remember what sport or incident caused the injury, but Krista and I had a good chuckle about how Murphy's law dictated that things like that always happen right before a portrait session. We discussed keeping the session and removing the boo-boo digitally, but with so much time before Chistmas, we thought it best to get Rach all better naturally.
Call two came a bit more reluctantly from Krista. I think it was an e-mail in fact. It started with "You're going to kill me...", resumed with "Nicholas just got a really bad haircut..." and ended somewhere in the "I need to reschedule again" area. There were between ten and twenty "I'm sorry's" in there and an "I promise not to ever reschedule again" if I'm not mistaken. Needless to say, I was happy to accomodate and rescheduled with pleasure as adding hair to a two year old would be quite difficult even for a PhotoShop junkie like myself.
The day of our third rescheduled appointment, I found myself at my home/studio with my parents, in-laws and a neighbor family of five (along with three dogs, two cats, a guinea pig and a bird). It was the big ice storm we had and it seemed like we were the only people for miles with power (though intermittent). I called to check on the P family to see if they too had an ice storm tale of woe, and as luck would have it (bad luck is luck too), they were just returning home from their hotel in order to get clothes to come to the session. There was no way they were going to reschedule again!
Since they had no water, and we had a houseful of refugees, we rescheduled once again. When they were finally in this weekend for their session the frst thing we did was have a good laugh about the broken road that lead us to portrait day. The second thing Krista said is that I had only 30 minutes to capture this year's family treasure... because now, basketball season is in full swing!
Portraits make a great memory, but sometimes there's a great story behind them too. The moral to this story? The fourth time's the charm!
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