12/25/2021
Merry Christmas!
Trust the Golden kids to save Salt Lake from the giant killer nutcracker.
If you receive a Christmas card then you’d know that I do the front of the card while Rebecca takes the back for our family picture.
This year’s picture on the front of the card was a tough one because we were feeling miserable in quarantine from COVID. Plus I wasn’t coming up with any good ideas. This picture was the one idea I did have, but I didn’t want to do it because it is so dark. I like to have our Christmas to be whimsical.
Well, the day of the deadline came and I had one other idea that day that I didn’t quite know how to execute, so after several hours of playing in Photoshop I determined that I couldn’t do it.
Unfortunately, by then it was about 4:00 in the afternoon and I had to rush to complete the picture. That’s I why I had to go with this picture.
From racing to downtown Salt Lake to get a shot of the street, then racing back home to shoot the kids and nutcracker before the sun set, and spending the rest of the evening in Photoshop was crazy fast.
Luckily the kids were super fast to shoot because each of them only gave me 3 runs in front of the house before they said they were done… Prima donnas… The nutcracker, on the other hand, was great. He had a good evil grimace, but he was a bit stiff and wooden in his pose. It’s a good thing the expressions of my reluctant participants played well with the subject matter.
Hopefully next year they are more apt to playing along because we don’t want to have to resort to the impossible task of writing several paragraphs summing up everyone’s lives over the last year. No thank you.
While we were waiting for the cards to arrive Rebecca would laugh because deep down she dreads the scary Christmas message it sends.
So Merry Christmas no matter how dark or bright it may be.
