I spent yesterday morning preparing lifestyle pictures for our adoption dossier. I've procrastinated this task for some time now, a little intimidated by the instructions as emailed by our agency. For some months, I've fretted over which photos to include. To my mind, our instructions were simultaneously vague and specific. At least one adoptive parent needed to be in each shot, no alcohol, large dogs, sunglasses, bathing suits, etc. ...if possible, include a couple of photos that show you doing something active, such as hiking, gardening, sports, etc. This is your opportunity to impress...so use the photos to your advantage. Submit happy, flattering photos...
I like messing around with my camera, but I'm not intent on capturing every last moment of
our lives. I'm more interested in, well, actually living. Mr. Pear will sporadically snap a few shots, but I'm rarely in them. One would think, from looking at our collection, that mini-pear didn't even have a mother. So some of these were staged in anticipation of including them in our dossier. To the right is one of my favorites. It's not even a particularly good picture of us, but we were at the Smithsonian Folk Festival this summer and I saw that gigantic dump truck and knew we had to have a picture with it for our dossier. Something about it just called out that it was something the Chinese would appreciate - economic progress, man-dwarfing machinery and our appreciative little faces.
At any rate, I can cross one more item off our list and, as per our agency's stern instructions, I used no glue! Glue tends to make the pages stick together. A glue stick is preferred and so a glue stick I purchased, although, I'm still not sure what makes the stick preferable to the squeeze bottle we already own. I was suspicious of the glue stick and bought some self adhesive clear plastic corner pieces, just be be completely redundant thorough in my efforts.
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