13. People who offer to take photos… as the person who’s always behind the camera, I very much appreciate people who stop and offer to include me in the images for once.
I’m so rarely in the picture myself that sometimes I think my kids will think I wasn’t there! And as much as I feel imperfect in photos, overweight, perhaps not dressed stylishly, maybe not posing prettily, bad hair, whatever – later, I look back on those photos and often think that I didn’t look as bad as I thought I did, and I like being able to track myself through life no matter how I was looking at the time. And my kids will be able to do the same, and see that I was integral in their childhood experiences and activities.
So even if it feels strange, if you see a family out together, offer to take a family pic! It’s almost always very welcome and appreciated. Just don’t bugger off with the camera… it’s poor form 😉
February 24, 2018 at 10:14 pm
That’s a nice idea. My husband always offers to take pictures for complete strangers. I don’t because I’m afraid I’ll mess them up, and I usually have him with me so I don’t have to 🙂
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March 12, 2018 at 9:24 am
I do too! If i see a family taking a pic with one behind the camera, I always ask if they want me to take it. We live a long way from any family and we have so few pictures of the four of us. You’d think it wouldn’t be that hard, but it seems so! Don’t worry about quality – they can always crop it or fix it on photoshop if they want to – any photo with the whole family is gold! 🙂
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February 25, 2018 at 4:36 am
I’ve started taking selfies with my kids just sometimes so that we have pics of us together 😊
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March 12, 2018 at 9:25 am
Me too! And at least with selfies you can take a few and pick the best hehe – but stil – I think I just need to make a point of asking visiting friends to take a pic of us just so we have a few more!
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