Start Preparing Your Family Holiday Cards

I’m sharing this because I just took a photo of my little girl in the garden this weekend and thought, “wow, that could be good enough to send as our Christmas card.” As soon as I had that thought, it hit me…the race for that perfect picture for the card is on.

I have a love/hate relationship with the whole holiday card thing. I love to get them and I love to send them. I just hate to make all the decisions that go in to making them. Who knows, maybe I just inadvertently made the whole thing easier by going out and having a relaxed game of chase in the garden with my little girl and my camera.

Yes, yes it’s still summer. And yes, yes it’s ridiculous to start talking about the end of the year now. I imagine that if you’re not thinking about squeezing in the last fun for summer break then you’re focusing on Back to School, right? Well, as fall fast approaches so does the time to start thinking about taking photographs for those holiday cards.

There is still plenty of time, and I mean plenty, but as a photographer I’ll be the first to tell you that the calendar starts getting booked around now. As time flies by so does the opportunity to arrange for good photos of your kids.

I’ve written a few posts about Holiday photographs and making your own holiday cards and more than likely will ruminate on the subject again soon, but for now just I’m putting a little bug in your ear.