Are you kidding me? Some other first days of school.
I’m going to interrupt my drawn-out blogging of San Francisco to present Abby on her first day of third grade. Actually I shot this about five days later when I could get the time to set up my photography crap and when she was in the mood. She’s wearing her Spirit Day outfit. Spirit Day is every Friday and they can wear PA sportswear instead of the regular uniform. Take a gander at her other first days. Except for kindergarten, which I somehow failed to photograph.
Abby started her second new school in as many years. The photo was actually taken on the third day of school, but so what. This year’s first day went much better than last year’s.
Abby started first grade a few weeks ago in a new school. Normally for such an occasion I would’ve had the ghetto studio fired up, but since we had just moved, chaos reigned. I had to do with the poor light on the back deck just before we left to drop her off.
Abby started prekindergarten today. Miss Selma’s doesn’t allow parents to get out of their cars, so I couldn’t get any first-day action shots. I had to settle for a session in the ghetto studio after I picked her up. (That mark on her arm is the remnants of a temporary pirate tattoo she got in Branson 10 days ago.) She was pretty shook up by having to change buildings and teachers and the fact that many of her classmates for the last 1.5 years were defecting for public pre-K. She didn’t go to sleep until about 12:30 a.m. the night before. But most of the kids in her class were also in her 2- and 3-year-old classes so she felt good about the whole thing. “I’m not anxious about pre-K anymore,” she said when I picked her up.
Strobist: SB-600 in shoot-through umbrella directly above and another SB-600 in a shoot-through umbrella propped up on the floor at her feet. SB-26 hair light in homemade snoot at camera left behind subject. I was going for the clam shell effect.