I don’t know about you, but trying to get my pups to pose nicely together for a Christmas card is somewhat challenging.
I’m not a big holiday decorator. I figure, you spend hours setting up the tree and decorating it, packing decorations up so you can add the Christmas decorations and then a month later, you have to take everything down. One year I had Hubby put lights on the house and when it came time to take them down I said, “Why bother, you’ll only have to put them up again next year.” So we left them up.
BUT this year. This year I found the cutest decorated lamp posts at the Home Depot and couldn’t resist buying them!
Siriusly, check this lamp out.
It is a lamp post or the entrance to Narnia?
I was so excited to get these up in front of the house that I had Hubby set them up on Sunday. And then brought the dogs outside for a Christmas card photo shoot.
Except:
- I’m not a photographer.
- I forgot about the front door being reflective glass.
- I didn’t bring anything out to cover the ugly concrete.
- I didn’t frame the pictures well and got my house number in most of them.
Well that’s crappy. The door is open, the house number is showing and look at all that ugly concrete.
Not bad, except for the ugly concrete and the bare ground and door reflection. At least they’re both looking at the camera.
I decided. Let’s try some single shots.
Sampson isn’t always comfortable sitting anymore so I thought let’s try him lying down.
Remind me again why I’m lying on this cold concrete?
Poor Sampson, he looks so sad, and of course there’s that ugly concrete and the door reflection. Yet the house number is almost covered up. Maybe if I keep trying I’ll get a decent photo by Christmas.
Next I tried a single shot of Delilah.
Really? You know I don’t like lying down on command.
Oh Delilah. She hates being told to lie down. Notice how stiffly she’s lying there. And her expression…well her expression tells me she thinks she’s in trouble.
I finally decided to try and work with an online photo editor and see what I could come up with. Here’s the finished product.
Damn pic monkey! I need a premiere account to add a hat to the snowman.
Cropped the photo and took most of the concrete out, cut the house number off added the snowman to cover the reflection in the door and frosted the edges. Not bad, eh?
So why then can I not order the cards? Do you struggle with things like this? Is it trivial to be so concerned about the Christmas card picture?
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