Family Portrait
MS Paint
“This is a picture of me (in the front) and my family. It was originally taken without my dad, as he was always off being a pilot somewhere. My parents were having problems at the time, and so, in wanting a complete family photo, my mother added my dad – cut out from another picture – to it. In that one, his head was 3x larger than ours, facing the wrong way, and his shirt had been marked in with a sharpie marker. When my parents stopped having problems, she changed the photo of him to the one now there. This was also the time that my mom discovered MS Paint. She thought my sister was being disrespectful by wearing an Arachnophobia shirt, so using her paint skills, she whited it out. She printed this gem and put it up in our family home, where it remained on the wall for over ten years.”
(submitted by Kaytee)
Clowning Around
“This is a pic of my husband and his family. My mother in law is obsessed with clowns. Her house is covered in them. This year they were even included in the family pic.”
(submitted by Seth)
Clown Funeral
“Visiting my Grandfather’s grave in 1997. I’m the one looking in the camera, hoping my Mother’s clown gene is recessive.”
(submitted by Celeste)
Little Nibbler
“Tried to take nice family photos and as the photographer said ‘alright, serious faces for this one’ my daughter turned and bit me on the shoulder.”
(submitted by IG @mmcgill344)
Hangtime
“The kids were having a shoot for our Christmas card and we had no idea why the photographer stopped shooting and fell to the ground laughing.”
(submitted by Kristen)
Worth It
“Our family photo from 1981. I seem annoyed even though I’m wearing my favorite Izod terry cloth shirt. My sister is comforting my grandmother. My Dad and brother seem somewhat pleased. This photo was stored in the original envelope which was marked COD, so we definitely paid for this.”
(submitted by IG @kevatino)
Overall Success
“This is my family circa 1999. I think we had just bought stock in denim.”
(submitted by IG @andystine75)
Personal Best
“My family posed for this gem in December 1993. I was 10; my brothers were 8 and 13. My mother loved themed portraits and says now in her defense, ‘Track suits were really hot back then. Everyone wore them. People wore them to work.”
(submitted by Christy)
Hot Tub Greetings
“My parents just got a hot tub and were very excited about it. Therefore, my grandma hired a professional photographer to take a family photo in the hot tub. For some reason they posed with wine and candles even though the children were not old enough to drink… and sent it out to 150 plus friends as a Christmas card.”
(submitted by Brittany)
Public Displays Of Affection
“During our annual holiday family photo shoot, we wanted to recreate a cute one we got the prior year when our son was just a baby. It didn’t quite turn out like we hoped it would….”
(submitted by Amy, photography by Laura Parker/Happily Ever Parker)
