Behind Life with Babies

A few behind the scenes photos from the story about Baron and Naomi's babies....

Escorting the Doctor

I wanted a nice location for the scene with Rex escorting the Doctor to the palace, and thought the scillas would be the perfect spot. The photos were taken on April 14th, 2023. I pose the dolls, and then sit down at a distance, and since it's a challenge for me to get up and down a lot, I ask Jan to make any small adjustments...

Then I zoom in to take the photos...

the Dragons Come for a Visit

After the birth of Baron and Naomi's twins, I had all their friends come for a visit. I figured that they would host the dragon family out on the castle terrace, so set up the scene on the patio table. I created their 'garden' by surrounding the scene with baskets of million bells. I always buy several baskets of them every spring, because they have the perfect in-scale size flowers.

The photos were taken on August 27, 2023, on a hazy, sunny afternoon. I set up the dolls in the shade, with their backs to the bright light. So I needed Jan to hold a white card to bounce light into the scene...

Then I take close up photos...

Naomi and Lisa on the Patio

It was September 10th, and the sun was getting low int he sky, so any scenes in the usual direction on the patio table would be severely back-lit, which doesn't make for nice photos.  So I set up this scene the other direction with the background to the north with the stone fireplace in the background. I filled the background with baskets of million bells. Many of the leaves from our crabapple trees, which usually provide shade on the patio all summer, had fallen already, so the scene was partly in the sun, which also doesn't make for the best photos. But there were also scattered clouds, so I took my chances. So I poked long sticks into the baskets of million bells to support clotheslines, and hung up the 'laundry'....

Then took close up photos of Lisa and Naomi interacting with the babies....

Baron's Birthday Party

I like to throw 'birthday' parties for my dolls on their arrival dates, and Baron's was coming up at the end of October, and I thought that would be the perfect day to have the babies Christened, and then have a party afterwards where he'd finally meet his half brother. So I set up the party scene on the dining room table, and filled it with his family and friends....

It's times like this that I wish the background walls were higher, since it's impossible to have everyone in a single photo....

...unless I severely crop it into a 'wide screen' format....

But the scene provides ample opportunity for close-ups....

Then I'll keep moving everyone around, and take more close-ups...