This is Holden, and he’s the son of a photographer. Like many photographers’ children, he has a severe case of PCS (photographer’s child syndrome). For those of you unaware of PCS, it’s a very real condition–as any photographer will tell you–which includes severe aversion to looking at the camera, and general anxiety and unsmiling-ness whenever a camera is pointed towards them, often resulting in running in the opposite direction. Amazingly, this condition–while not contagious–often does cause symptoms in parents, primarily frustration that they can’t take pictures of their own children. (If you happen to walk by my studio close to Christmas, and hear me crying, that would be because it’s the one time a year that I force my own kids to have pictures with me, and it often doesn’t go very well….. :)
The cure for PCS? Getting someone other than mom or dad to take the pictures–as well as a ton of fun on a summer morning splashing in the lake and getting sand between the toes!
(I hope you are thrilled, Carrie! xox!)
by Jen
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