Amy’s Garden

Family Photo Shoot

For the long weekend, we took a long trip to Harrisburg, Illinois, where my grandma lives. My brother David and his wife Lindsay and their three-month-old baby Caleb were visiting her, along with my parents.

Baby Caleb was the star of the weekend. I couldn’t get over his sweet chubbiness.

Since we had the whole McKinstry family together, which doesn’t happen very often, we did a family photo shoot. Keith brought his tripod and camera remote. We set up in front of Grandma’s blank wall.

After we got everyone arranged, we got a couple of decent pictures. Everyone looks relatively happy here.

Now I’ll train your eye to be savvy. Look at Keith’s left arm. See how it doesn’t look relaxed and see how his sleeve is pushed up? Now look at Luke. He is looking at the place where Keith’s arm was moments ago, when Keith was holding the camera remote up high to tell the camera to click.

So, we move on to the next photo.

Keith’s sleeve looks better, so if you don’t already know about the remote, you might just think Luke is looking at a pesky fly. Oh wait, Dad has his eyes closed! Hmm, we might have to do some creative head swapping between photos.

There were several more, but I will spare you a detailed play-by-play of the whole shoot. At the end, Luke wanted a turn to take a picture, so Keith held the camera down to him and let him press the button.

It’s a telling photo of how Luke views the world, don’t you think?

Next it was Lydia’s turn.

Lydia also “took some pictures” using only the tripod. Here she is taking her grandpa’s picture.

Overall a fun weekend, but I wish we could have stayed longer.