Like all parents, I love seeing beautiful photos of my girls. But while I can usually capture great photos and expressions of other people’s kids, my own kids WILL NOT COOPERATE with me when I pull out my camera. It’s a common problem among photographers’ children. In some forums people even refer to it as “PCS” or “Photographers’ Children’s Syndrome”. Because, you see, when we’re learning photography or testing out a new location or lens or camera… guess who gets to be our models? You got it. Our own kiddos. And they learn to be as uncooperative as possible.

And PCS is three times as bad when your children happen to be triplets, LOL. I swear, they get together as soon as they see me picking up my camera and plan out which one of them will NOT look at the camera for that particular photo session. It’s so bad that the only good photos I’ve gotten of them the past few years have been of them running away from the camera.

Like this one, for example…

Now, don’t get me wrong. I love that photo. It’s blown up as a big 30″ x 40″ fine art canvas in our living room. I REALLY love it. It captured them running through a flock of birds having a blast at the beach. For me it totally captures their spirit and youthfulness, and I love it.

But I REALLY love capturing their silly smiles and personalities too. Their beautiful little faces…

So, the other day I decided to give it another shot. They refused to take a photo together, but through some skilled bribery on my part I was able to do a mini session with each of them back to back. It was fun, and I got some great shots out of it.

Here are some of my favorites from the session, with each girl…

And our new wall grouping in the living room: a 16×24″ trilogy of fine art canvases. :heart:  :heart:  :heart: