Today I had limited time and when I showed up to photograph the first of three Easter Egg hunts today(I do love a small town newspaper--I really do--seriously this is the stuff I truly love to photograph) only to find the hunt itself was over I was a little bit rushed. I wanted to get in there and just look and see kids reacting to everything they found--so when I was approached by someone(who was happy to see mee) and told what she wanted me to photograph was this 'elder' a baby and the Easter Bunny all together I impatiently said--'oh I'm here to get candids' and I sort of ignored this very nice person. She persisted and asked me again and I agreed that I would take the picture, but wouldn't say for sure that it would make the paper. I didn't really want to take the picture--we shoot candids and seek slices of life photographs. So I again sort of ignored this very nice person(she really is a very nice person.) When I felt a tap on my shoulder and heard--we're ready I turned to snap a picture and be done with it--I really felt like this was wasting precious time I did not have. Then the baby cried, then the woman looked over at the baby crying and the Easter Bunny whose nose was sort of crooked from being pushed in a couple of times just made for this great expression. The very nice lady said'oh now thats just the perfect thing isn't?' and I agreed. What started out as me not having patience, ended up that all I needed to be was calm and patient and just do what the very nice person wanted me to do and it would be ok--even if I didn't get this picture--it is ok for me to relax and take the picture. Now---I think its my favorite picture so far in 2010. Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer. Happy Easter everyone--and thanks for looking at our photographs everyday!