Setting Up the Two Day Photo Session

Since I had Anne's beautiful things to use, I wanted to have a nice backdrop for my performance photos. Knowing that outdoor photos can turn out really nice, I took a couple of things out onto the patio. It was a beautiful day and the temperatures were in the 60s. 

This patio table would work nicely - it was a good size, at a height that would not kill my back, and my neighbors' bushes were far enough away to make a nice screen behind the photos as well as not look out of scale to the model horse and dolls.

I started setting up and immediately had a problem - the wind. While it was not really windy, or even breezy, there was just enough air motion that it was knocking my things over. That was not going to work!

Across the street from our home is a park with a nice picnic pavilion on the lake. I could set up on the tables that were in it - would that work?

But I could tell right away that the houses would show.

No matter what angle I tried, I still had homes in the background. Plus, it was windier on the lake than it was in my own back yard. I was going to have to set up indoors at home.

I walked back home and began packing up the mess I had left on the craft table.

I wasn't sure what models I would be using, so I brought several likely ones downstairs.

Soon I was taking over the living room - rearranging furniture and clearing tables so that I could have all my things out and easily accessed. 

It's a good thing our kids no longer live at home and need to practice the piano!

I dragged Grandma Honeywell's antique table over next to the player piano along with a chair for me to sit in while I worked on tacking up models and placing them where I wanted them to be.

Setting up an entry using flags that I have tucked away - each one represents a place someone in my family has visited.

And then I started snapping away...

105 photos later, I was tired, my fingers and eyes hurt, and I had to stop for the day.