Lessons from the Family Photo Collections

Working with so many families I hear a variety of reasons why people don’t like various portraits of themselves or their children.   I recently lost my grandfather, and as our family has been cleaning out his home we have uncovered a number of old family pictures.   Looking back through the portraits I can see how important family portraits are to your children and their future children, even if they’re not perfect.  In fact, the less perfect ones were the more interesting and fun ones to look at.  So here we go, my take on the “lessons from the family photo collections”.

And finally a couple of signed pictures I found that presumably were exchanged by my Grandmother and Grandfather while he was in the navy during WWII.

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  1. What a wonderful treatment of otherwise mundane family photos.

  2. Awww. that made me cry. I do not like myself in pictures and realized when my oldest was two, that I was hardly in any pics with her and I didnt want her to think I wasn’t there for all her fun days- so I forced myself to be in pictures with them because I know it will be important to them later… And even to me- when I am an old lady and think that the me I see in the mirror now (all flawed and tired) was actually not so bad after all 🙂 I see a bit of you and A in your grandmother around the eyes!