Day of the photoshoot!

I took this photograph on the morning of the photoshoot and as you can see, we got lucky with the weather! However, we knew that we had a race against time as all the pretty ice crystals were starting to melt as soon as the sun came out.
This meant we had a situation with the props. I had spent all of the day before making some of the props for the photoshoot, like the presents I wanted to hang from the tree and a huge red and white stripped candy kane from a walking stick. It turns out that they weren't that impressive and when it came to the morning of the shoot we decided to leave them out of the scenes. My reasons for this was mainly because, we had no real way of getting them high up into the trees without it taking us all day and by then the ice would of melted. Also, I have now learnt that my prop making skills aren't great and Jackson and I felt that they just looked abit naff and distracted attention from the beautiful natural scenery that we were working with.