Watching Paint Dry Is An Arduous Task

This is a picture of sheer exhaustion.  After a fun-filled birthday party complete with jumpy castle and a Darth Vader piñata, too little food and too much sweets, we slowed down at home by painting her nails.  So there she sat in her chair, carefully holding her hands just so to avoid smudging the fresh sparkly polish, when she just couldn't keep her head up any longer and she fell into a much needed slumber.  After my initial response of a mother's adoring "Awww, my poor, tired child," I did what any sensible Shutter Sister would do and grabbed my camera.

It's not often that my girl will hold still to have her photo taken, so it was quite a treat to have the freedom to shoot away.  I took about twenty pictures from different angles and distances, but none of the images stood out to me.  On the very last shot that I took, I decided to tilt the camera a tad bit to make the framing less rectangular, and that ended up being the shot that I felt captured best what I wanted to convey, namely the haphazard placement of her hands and arms and head in a chaotic configuration that only children can happily sleep in.

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This is taken from my post today on Shutter Sisters, which you can visit over here.