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My kids and grandkids grew up with my camera in their faces. LOL I started with a "simple camera" and it was always sitting out where I could grab it in a moment's notice. Years ago, I bought a book called "How To Take Great Pictures With Your Simple Camera" and studied that and learned some great tips for photographing my kids.

It's a joke in our family that whenever any of the kids see a camera, they instantly go into "pose mode". They're all hams and luckily, they never went through the "no pictures phase". I've always been the family photographer and took many family photos by using my timer and tripod. I've pretty much handed the photograph reigns over to my oldest granddaughter, Ava. She's an awesome photographer - she just did a wedding shoot last weekend. She's going to take a family photograph later this summer when most of the family will be together. There's always somebody who isn't in the picture (due to distance), but we think most will be here.

I'm so thrilled because she always wants my assistance in editing her photo shoots. She just sent me 432 pictures - in a dropbox file, but we decided to let the bride and groom narrow down to their very favorites and then we'll edit them. I told Ava that was a great plan! The pictures she took look pretty darned good to me, but they can always be edited a bit. For the first time, I'm actually IN the pictures and she takes a lot of pictures of me - like so many of us scrappers, we're BEHIND the camera most of the time. She said she wants pictures of me to show her children and (someday) grandchildren. :heartlub:heartlub:heartlub

I don't have pictures sitting around - except 2 pictures of all 6 of my grandchildren (that I took). One is in a beautiful antique frame that was Grandma's and the other is in a cute, funky frame on my mantle. I have a few collages that are in my scraproom. I'm kind of a minimalist in the rest of the house.
 
So the set up for this story...I have 6 brothers & sisters but we are "two sets" of family....4 kids in 5 years, wait 12 years and then 3 more in a year and a half.

My mom got cancer when I was in my late teens and we decided to all meet at my parents house for Christmas a few years later. This is the ONLY family picture we have with all of us and it was within 6 months of her death so she doesn't look as healthy as possible. I told myself this would never happen with my family!

Granted, I only had 2 kids vs. 7 so it is a lot easier to get together. We are suppose to get together every 2 years for Christmas, but my daughter's brain cancer and then a new granddaughter born on Dec 17th, it doesn't happen like clockwork. When it does, we get professional photos taken, some sessions are better than others, but bad photos are better than no photos! Of course I always take pictures when I visit or they come here. I also have a lot of my husband but have forced myself to be in the shot more and more!
 
we've only had professional photos twice, both times prior to the advent of digital cameras.
My husband is a prolific photographer, so were are never short of photos of the family or places we go etc. Both Joy and TJ are developing a healthy interest in photography too.
 
@Cherylndesigns I love Ava wants to preserve you in the photos too! I hope you still get some of her with her children too!

@michele hillam We have something similar in my growing up family. Really, it's 3-4 families - 3 kids in 4 years then - 6 year gap, 2 kids in 2 years, 6 year gap, 3 kids in 6 years, then a 9 year gap before the last one.

The first 3 of us have some photos. I'm the oldest, and got a camera about the time the second family was born. Not digital though, but I took most of the photos we have of them. The next 3 have a ton of photos, 90% taken by me digitally. The last one is mostly what my parents think to take on their phone.

It's a weird thing to watch the way the photos change over the years. The first group has hardly any photos with parents present, the last group has a bunch with parents present.
 
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