A Day at the Swimming Pool

Once again, our friends from the Cayman Islands, the Parchments were visiting and their daughter 11 yr. old Hannah stayed with us over the weekend. She just attended a swimming competition in Orlando a few days ago. Richard and Ellen said that although she never won first place in any of the heats, she placed from 2nd to 4th in most of them. She was competing with 14 yrs. old kids, we've learned. We took the time to go swimming with her so she can help the two kids refine their swimming skills. We first went to the clubhouse but the pool was newly treated with chlorine so we went to the local park where they had a bigger pool. Swimming had become a regular summer time activity for us and the kids and this time I just brought my camera to make some pictures. I had to do it before taking a plunge and then promptly hiding it away and thus be able to enjoy the fun time with everybody else.

After the swim, we took the time to take more photos and even Missy was in the rotation of being the photographer. Hannah took our family picture. I just had to do some minor adjustments with the cropping to make it more pleasant. One of the advantages of shooting digital. Sweet!

Hannah is back

Hannah Parchment, a nine year old girl who lives in the Cayman Islands is visiting us for the weekend. Missy calls her Ate Hannah and enjoys having her around. I took the time to photograph her just in our backyard. I was not able to do a more deliberate photoshoot with her except for some snapshots with my two kids goofing around when she stayed with us for a month in 2004. That was the time the Cayman Islands was devastated by Hurricane Ivan if I'm not mistaken. She was easy to work with and can easily follow my directions. I hope Richard and Ellen will enjoy these photos just like I enjoyed photographing her. She never complained and I never heard her ask how many more shots I have to make. I was fast anyway and I only worked with a reflector. With David and Missy, that's a given. Well, that's one disadvantage of using your kids as models but they have tons of their own pictures and hopefully someday, they're going to appreciate that.