{"id":17886,"date":"2024-03-28T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brightongirls.gdst.net\/?post_type=heads_blog&#038;p=17886"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:21:16","slug":"smile","status":"publish","type":"heads_blog","link":"https:\/\/brightongirls.gdst.net\/news\/heads_blog\/smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I looked in the mirror yesterday and saw my pale face and periorbital puffiness, I did wonder what had possessed us to book a whole school photograph on this, the penultimate day of term. The stakes were high: we had scheduled just 40 minutes to capture a community of nearly 500 people; a day earlier, it would have been a wash-out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter a four-man team from Tempest Photography, who brought with them ruthless efficiency, a couple of megaphones and (crucially) the sunshine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were all set.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing those guys in action reminded me of the words of the great photographer Ansel Adams, who said, \u201cYou don\u2019t take a photograph, you make it\u201d. It was a joy to behold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a school, it is not often we get to see plans being followed with such military precision; our days are full of curveballs and complications. No so for the Tempest team: from the youngest pupils in Reception to our seasoned Sixth Formers, every student and staff member came together like a giant green and black Tetris puzzle. 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