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Central Park opened in 1932 on what had been Eastbrook Farm, and both halves of that sentence show up in the pictures. Ground that began as a farm is even underfoot, which is the difference between a grandparent enjoying an hour outdoors and enduring it, and it is why a pram is not a problem here. A park laid out in the thirties for a large new population was built for crowds rather than for corners, so it is broad and open, with clean uncluttered backgrounds almost everywhere and very little deep shade anywhere. The consequence is that on a bright day the whole park is one light. There is no shaded bank to retreat to when a session goes harsh, so the remedy has to be the hour rather than a change of position: early morning, or the last stretch of afternoon before dusk. On a cloudless summer midday we would move the date instead. Open ground also means wind, which small children resent far more than cold. Order of shooting matters more than location with a young family. The useful part of a session with a three year old finishes long before the adults believe it has, so we take the group frame the grandparents actually want at the start, while everyone is fresh and clean, and count everything after it as gained. When the sky is against it, or a child is small enough that warmth matters more than being outdoors, the Northwood studio is the better room and nothing about the day depends on the weather.