The Most Photographed Baby

From the moment she was born, Emily has had time to get used to the glare of the camera. We started photographing her when she was just a few minutes old and since then we have gone on to take over two thousand photos between us.

Of course, part of this is made possible by the fact that we both have cameras on our mobile phones, making it easy to take pictures any time, anywhere. But it’s also down to the fact that we have such an incredibly photogenic baby – and one who, it seems, has gotten the hang of posing for shots.

She’s been known to pull faces, offer up a cute little baby pout and stick her tongue out at the camera, while occasionally she’ll try and grab it off me, creating a kind of ‘no photos please!’ effect with her arm partly obscuring her face.

The one thing we do have problems with, though, is getting her to smile for snaps. She’ll happily respond to Mummy and Daddy’s attempts to produce a grin, only for it to disappear as soon as the camera is produced.

Usually, it means one of us has to stand out of shot and do something silly to make her laugh, then take the picture really quickly before she changes her mind. On the picture above, for example, she was smiling and squealing beforehand, only to clam up once again the second the shutter went off.

Still, the smiley photos are great when they happen. But of course there is just one question in my mind: if we’ve taken over two thousand photos of her already, how many will we have taken by the time she’s 18? Enough to wallpaper our house, probably.