York County Fair

A few weeks ago, on one of my last weekends before Wedding Madness 2008 (I'm basically shooting every weekend from mid-September to mid-November) kicked back into high gear, we took a trip out to see my parents in York, PA. The York County Fair was in full swing and Jake and my mom and I spent the better part of the afternoon taking in all the sights and smells and rides and tasty goodness that Central Pennsylvania has to offer.

Jake's brilliant mother, you know, the one who is a professional photographer, managed to forget her camera in the car. So I had nothing to record Jake's first glimpse of racing pigs, no photos of the look of sheer terror when he saw a (really ugly) turkey live and in person ("Oh no! Mommy what happened him?"), no pictures of him meeting and petting a half-dozen live baby deer, not a single image of him riding round and round with squeals of delight as he sat in the car of the kiddie rides. Nope, not me. I left my camera in the car.

Luckily, some of the amusements at the fair capitalized on the forgetfulness of parents, an offered (and by offered, I mean charged willingly) to take photographs of your child enjoying themselves and printed the photos before your very eyes!

I present for your viewing pleasure, the trifecta of cuteness:


Yes, this is Jake. In a basket. With a baby piglet. And a baby deer. I mean, REALLY??!! Do you know what torture it was to see this image unfolding before my eyes and NOT having a camera to document this??

And we also got a picture of Jake and myself with an enormous Clydesdale horse. Jake was rather vocal about the fact that this was DEFINITELY a boy horse. If you get my drift.


I've been a little better about remembering my camera now after this debacle. ;)