Even though I'd really been looking forward to taking doll photos in Norstead, it proved to be quite the challenge. In addition to it being a bright, cloudless, sunny day, and almost everything having to be shot into the sun - which is the worst possible scenario - almost all the photos had to be taken with the dolls hand held, except for this one, where the dolls were standing on a bench....
Then I had to crouch down to take the photo at the doll's eye level, of them heading off to the boat shed....
Labrador
One of the biggest challenges taking any kind of photos in Labrador is the swarms of black flies. They even came to check out the dolls, and started crawling all over them
I'd really wanted to take a photo of Jude on his horse somewhere in Labrador with some nice scenery in the background, and thought the pull-off at the top of one mountain was perfect. So we got out, and I set up Jude on his horse. I sat down on the ground to take the photos, but Jude and his horse fell over - thankfully onto his back onto some soft moss - and I had to direct Jan to stand them back up and adjust Jude's wig....
Then I was able to take some photos....
Everything went fine for the first fifteen minutes or so, but then the black flies smelled that dinner was being served, and swarmed us. They were all over me and the camera, and it became impossible to take any more photos without them. You can see all the bugs flying in the background in the next photo, and all those fuzzy dark spots in the sky are from black flies crawling all over the camera lens.
So we quickly packed up the dolls and made for the RV. Then spent the next hour killing the dozens of black flies that had followed us into the RV when we opened the doors to get in. But I had taken some really nice photos.
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