Professional Photography....

.... in Doha. This was a funny experience. Enrique called me from work this morning to tell me that he was coming by to pick me and the kids up so that we could go and get our pictures taken for our ID cards. Never mind that I had made 20 copies of our passport pictures for an incident such as this...no, our pictures had a white background..well, apparently here in Doha, our ID cards need to have pictures of us with a "dark" background.

Needless to say we get to this little shack somewhere in the city and we go into this little waiting room. It smelled funny, was kind of run down and dirty, and another American lady who was there for the same reason looked at me, kind of chuckled and said, "This isn't exactly Sears, is it?" My thoughts exactly....

Well, I was up first for my professional session. I walk in with the photographer and I felt like I was in 4th grade all over again...school pictures..remember when the photographer would come up to you, put your hands in you lap, fix your shirt, put his hands on your face to tilt your head a certain way?...yeah, that was exactly what this guy did! I'm thinking, "isn't this just for and ID card?"

Gerardito was up next and he did great. Then Enrique went in next for his session and last but not least was Enriquito. He took several pictures of Enriquito because apparently this 2 year old could not crank out the right smile....
#1

#2

#3 (Mr. Smoooooth)

and #4


I thought #1 or #2 would have been just fine for his ID card, but you know which one they picked?.......#4.....yeah, the one where he's got the "natural" smile...

oh well, it was fun...
and here's my other cutie