BABY'S PHOTOGRAPH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

BABY'S PHOTOGRAPH.

DON'T FUSS HIM,

Taking baby to be photographed is a ceremony hardly less important in the family circle than a christening. It may be an hour of jov or tears.

Smiling and happy, baby is going out on a new adventure to face a strange man or woman with a strange sort of box in a iitrange place. He is quite calm and uiexcited nbout it, and should make just as jolly a little picture as you desire—if you give him a chance. The plain truth is that ninety babies out of every hundred whom adoring mothers taue to be photographed are helpless victims —and not of the photographer's. For what happens ? Baby wakes with his usual bonny smile, and if you had a camera at hand would give you a snapshot that everyone would exclaim is " just like baby " This special photograph, however, becomes an imposing occasion. Baby must be made to " look his best." Mother and sisters fuss round. Baby's curls aren't right. Baby's dress, good enough for any other outing, is all wrong. Even father, for once in the week, takes a mild interest iri baby.

Baby regards tins unusual attention with wonder growing in his eyes. '1 hen comes alarm. Then tears. And the photographer sadly welcomes into bis studio another little victim of mother s vanity. Child photographers are specialists, who know their business. What they have to contend with is not difficulties of photography, but baby temperaments that have often been thoroughly upset before their subjects get anywhere near the studio.

Don't wcrry about " Sunday bests," straight [parti ngw and angelic expressions, when with ruffled hair, everyday clothes, and smiling happy faces you will have pictures to treasure.