#61 A staff story

One of our senior staff became a grandmother a couple of weeks ago. Of course Anne has known about this impending “grand-motherhood” for some six months or so, and Anne naturally offered to include the baby in one of Anne’s shooting days for her new book.

As they are based in our New Zealand office, they had to get a passport for the new baby. The authorities require a photograph of the newborn, eyes open and not smiling, i.e. no expression on the face – the same as an adult passport photo. As you can imagine this is no easy feat and it took them some days to achieve it. For new mothers and fathers the first smile is something we all look forward to, so that was not a major problem so early in the baby’s life, but open eyes looking to a camera can be not that easy with a baby at just 3 weeks!!

Finally they did, and the authorities very kindly rushed the application through, so the little fellow at 21 days made his first flight and came to Anne’s studio in Australia with his mum and grandmother.

He looked absolutely gorgeous, in fact his grandmother shed a tear much to her daughter’s horror! (you know how daughters always roll their eyes when their mums do anything at all)

It was a lovely morning and here is a photograph of Anne with the baby, the mum and the proud grandmother. (also a proud and respected staff member!!!)