for our first trip abroad en famille, we're planning to go to france at easter for my dad's 60th birthday party - and for this little fionn will be needing his own passport and passport photos.

i hadn't anticipated what a difficult task taking the passport photos would be.

the passport photograph guidelines are quite stringent and a newborn is not the most cooperative of models.

we did eventually manage to take a (barely) passable photo but it took a lot of (sometimes hilarious) outtakes to get it (my favourite is the one on the top right).

ps. i realise that this has turned into a one-subject photoblog, but unfortunately it's likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future - or until my infatuation with my new son ends (i'm told the 'terrible twos' might do something to help with that)

[aged: 2 weeks and 2 days]