I don't photograph many babies. My friend Harmony loves to photograph babies and usually she gets the calls for the wee ones. I was asked by Maggie's mom to make pictures of her recently and we opted to do them at their house. My idea was to photograph them in their home natural, but that is just hard to do. You open your home to a stranger with a camera and he expects you to be yourself.... yeah right. I will sometimes over stay my welcome until I'm sorta forgotten, but this wasn't going to be the case here. So I concentrated on making some 'studio-like' shots of Maggie as well. This was shot pretty simply using only window light and dark brown chair. I was able to make the majority of the picture sorta sepia toned allowing just the flower to have bright color. I know I have to have a pretty rounded ability to photograph a lot of subjects, but babies--though easy in the sense that you can't take a bad picture because they are just innocent and cute, they are quite difficult because their mood seems to change by the millisecond. And surprisingly, they move quickly from one thing to the next, even the real young ones like maggie, her little eyes and mouth, her hands and her toes seemed to be in perpetual motion even though she never left the spot we put her. Photograph by Richard Sayer