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On Thanksgiving Day of 2022, our Natalie entered her 16th year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In honor of this very important observance, I wish to offer a Birthday Acronym:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Natalie is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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N – Naturally Nonsensical<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A – Always Argumentative<\/p>\n\n\n\n
T – Tiny Titan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A – Astonishingly Annoying<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L – Lavishly Loving<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I – Inordinately Impudent <\/p>\n\n\n\n
E – Exceedingly Effervescent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I were to go on through the rest of her name – Gianna Cecilia Heidmann – I could perhaps more fully capture the nuances of her personality, but this should do to give you the essence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A while ago I purchased a nice big double-sided portrait backdrop pop-up with a vague idea of learning a little more about studio lighting and getting some more formal style photos of my kids in the process. I got a stand, I thought, to hang it on, but when I popped it open and put up the stand I realized I need another stand and a rod from which to hang the backdrop. This studio stuff is always more involved than I expect. Anyway, with Natalie’s help, I figured out a way to prop it up without the extra gear, did a little experimenting with the lighting and was able to get some birthday photos. I learned quite a bit in the process, and recognize that I need more light and I’ll have to save up for that. But I’m happy to have started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are my first attempts at studio portraits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Thanksgiving Day of 2022, our Natalie entered her 16th year! In honor of this very important observance, I wish to offer a Birthday Acronym: Natalie is: N – Naturally Nonsensical A – Always Argumentative T – Tiny Titan A – Astonishingly Annoying L – Lavishly Loving I – Inordinately Impudent E – Exceedingly Effervescent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,101,3,156,351],"tags":[551,34,416],"class_list":["post-38765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adopted-joy","category-birthday","category-family","category-photography-art","category-portraits","tag-birthday","tag-photography-2","tag-portraits","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38771,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38765\/revisions\/38771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}