Week 10: The Plush Menagerie

Yep, another week devoted to Jonah's stuffed animals. I guess I really have myself to blame. As I mentioned before, whenever I travel, I typically bring back a little something for Jonah from whatever city I was visiting. Most of the time my schedule is really tight, so I end up buying something at the airport, and well, that tends to be plush. Plus, stuffed animals pack really easily!

Anyway, behold Jonah's collection of stuffed animals. He LOVES them. He often picks up as many as he can possibly carry (say 8 or so of them - really) and stumbles around the apartment trying to keep them all in his arms. He loves to snuggle with them and has no fewer than 12 in his crib at all times. Many mornings he will wake up and play with his stuffed animals for quite awhile before we go in and get him. You can hear him singing to them, reenacting school with them and putting them in time out.

He was somewhat willing to take this photo today. We had just come back from the store (which is one block from our apartment) and we let him be a big boy and walk, rather than ride in the stroller, for the first time. He was pretty happy about that. The first couple of shots, he climbed up, sat nicely and let me take the photo. Then he got a little silly, insisted upon putting the truck in the shot (dead center) and then started showing his true personality.

As for the photo - this is my 24-70mm at 24mm and f/4. There are two flashes - one in a 60" softlighter camera right and one in a 28" softbox camera left at one stop down to provide some fill on the animals.