Your kid and the ice cream, half a second later

Three kids means roughly nine hundred photos taken exactly one second too early. This gives you the one that mattered. Same pavement, same sandals, same stripy top — except the scoop is now on the ground and her face is doing the thing faces do in the quarter-second before the noise starts. Nobody is crying yet. That restraint is the whole art of it. Tweak: 'two seconds later, the dog has arrived' — that's the version we sent to her dad.