The Family Picture

Oliver was reaching about 8 months and the crab-apple tree in the backyard was about to bloom. Spring was upon us.

I returned home one day and found that Oliver had a new shirt. We've never had to buy him a new shirt before - he has nephews that have graciously donated clothes. So what's up I say?

It's family picture time. Sue wants one in front of the tree.

The weather's perfect and I begin re-arranging the deck, move the table over here, grab a 'woot' card-board box, adjust it, grab the digital camera, set the quality to its highest setting. Test a few shots with the delay-time feature - as that always takes a few 'test' to truly get it right.

Change clothes, sue has a blue theme going.

And off we go. 160 time delayed pictures. 160 x 10 second timer = 1,600 seconds / 60 seconds = 26 minutes of waiting for that little red light to flash.

In all each picture probably took a good 30 seconds, re-adjust Oliver, try a new position, get a new toy, distract him, reposition him.

As the law of nature has it, anytime Oliver looked great. Sue or I did not.

Sue found one picture she liked, but she wanted to call my brothers wife and see if she could snap some pics. the next day she arrives and rattled off a good sixty pics. And lo-behold we have our very first official family picture. Enjoy