i challenged a friend of mine recently to turn up the quality on their photographic excursions. tonight, i see they have several new shots up, one of which definitely qualified as ‘improvement’…. well, with a bit of post-processing.
i think back to all the baby pictures i’ve seen in my life; both of my own children and of others. there are many ‘in-betweeners’… you know the ones, where the shutter clicked just before or after something amazing happened. heh. the ones i tend to like the most are of families napping together or in some manner of relaxed position. i guess we’ve all see the ‘family at the beach shot’ or the ‘family in the garden shot’. hell, every photographer from here to timbuktu can take those.
i’m taking the liberty of including here two shots that make my list for ‘good family shots’. i won’t tell you which one i put my photoshop skills to…. but you tell me, are these or are these not wonderful examples of happy family moments? the kind that, if you’re lucky enough to have something like them in your own baby shots, you can look at and KNOW you were wanted, loved, and cherished?
i’d just about kill to have shots like this in my family album. all my baby pictures (what few there are) are of frightened mother, angry father, or contain such awkwardness between them (sitting stiffly by one another on a sofa, myself and my sister in their laps) that it pains me to look at them. the ones of myself or my younger sister alone are happier….. but then, they were taken after our parents were well out of the scene.
anyway. i look at those two shots above and smile. every time. regardless anything other or else, each of those parents love that boy and it makes me smile to think of him looking at these some far flung future day and feeling good to know it. really know it.