Five years... and a double-whammy...

The date was July 6, 2010.

A tall blonde senior girl from Green Mountain-Garwin paid us a visit for her senior session.  

A quiet and polite young lady with nothing more on her list of demands than the desire to look great in her pictures.

But there WAS a wild card that day with Laura Goettsch's senior images.

Make that TWO wild cards.

One named Amy.

The other named Emily.

Laura's ornerier than ornery twin sisters had yet to begin seventh grade at that point, but they certainly had a healthy supply of middle school giggles on board.

And as these things typically go... I try to stay focused on the task at hand.   Do the best job I can for my senior that day... and then laugh a little when the senior mom -- Carla in this case, tells me they'll be back in a few years.

In a familiar refrain... those few years... actually FIVE... went by faster than a bad night's sleep.   Translation?   Way. Too. Fast.   Because a couple Thursdays ago... the first of those ornery twins was back.   This time for HER senior session.

In similar fashion to her older sis, Amy traveled light and had very few demands, but once again... It was my task to make her look and feel the best she's ever been and mix in some more laughs along the way for the Gladbrook Hometown Foods employee.

Some of the "demands" if I may use the term loosely would come the following week when Amy would return for some images with younger-by-one-minute sister, Emily.   In addition we made some moving images that included Papa Mark, who this time around, got to take part in the senior picture process (other than the obvious part that most of us dads are responsible for  --  cutting the check), which was very cool.

I tell ya what... after two sessions in a week's time, Mark Goettsch is now certified in reflector holding, light scrimming with an umbrella held together with a stick and yes... even some grey card wrangling.   Stay tuned for Emily's blog when I get around to her... Daddy's image with his twin baby girls will choke up even the toughest of men.   You've been warned.

Maybe it's because I just had to let my only daughter out of the nest in the past month, but that one was a throat grabber, and you'll hafta wait for it.  :)

Sorry to be such a tease, without further adieu, here's Goettsch Twin Girl v1.0