Family Portrait
Stacked
“My Mom booked this photo shoot. I was 12 and my sister was 15. We have no idea why the photographer thought laying in a pile on my Dad would make a good photo. And how did Mom get out of it? She must have known then how ridiculous it would look. Moms know everything.”
(submitted by Laura)
Portrait Of Despair
“My brother’s family. Only Mom could keep it together. The kids are grown now but I can still see the same personalities in them today! I love to look back at it when I need a laugh. Even the kids friends love it and tease them relentlessly! Thanks heavens they don’t have a copy of my family portrait. LOL.”
The Fisherman’s Pride Recreation
“While at a flea market several years ago, I bought a print called ‘The Fisherman’s Pride.’ It depicts a woman and her child by the seaside and the pair look exactly like me and my son–several people assumed we posed for it! So, I decided to recreate the image. I hired a photographer, had my hair professionally done in a ‘Seaside ‘do, (which really just means ‘wind blown’), and went into the studio for our shoot.
This is the result. Rather than actually going to the seaside and holding my son in my arms, or even using a seaside backdrop, I’m wrapped in a sheer cloth with my naked one-year-old on my lap. I hung a copy in my home for awhile since it was the only photo I had of me and my son at the time, but I quickly got rid of it when a neighbor asked why I was pretending to be a mermaid. :(”
(submitted by Angela)
The Fix Of ’76
“We had a professional photographer come to our house to take a family photo. When we got the photos back, all of them had something wrong– someone’s eyes were closed, weird smile, whatever–except for the last photo, which we thought was perfect and sent out on our Christmas cards. Then…we saw it. I (the youngest) evidently was having underwear creepage that needed to be fixed right then. At that very moment. And to this day, no one will ever let me forget The Great Underwear Fix of 1976.”
(submitted by Sherry)
Skinny Dippers
“Every year for swimming my brother and I take a family photo for the team pictures, but this year the crop job and my hair made it look like we were naked.”
(submitted by Caitlin)
Trouble With The Pose
“My mother took this picture and clearly I was going for the ‘hand on the hip’ pose’, but missed my mark. I don’t know why Mom didn’t point out that it looks like I’m punching myself. (And this picture was framed at my grandparent’s house.)”
(submitted by Amber)
Lean In
“I don’t know what this pose is all about. It looks like our backs hurt or we are all going to puke in the next 10 seconds. All my friends say it looks like an advert for a family-TV-Show in the early 90s but I think the photo is from 2001.”
(submitted by Britta)
Blue Ribbon Baby
“I was a newborn when my Mother and Father took me to the photo studio at the department store to have my first ‘professional’ photos taken for family. My Dad thought it would be funny to put me holding a beer. The real question is why did he have a Pabst Blue Ribbon at the department store?”
(submitted by Jeremy)
String Theory
“I confess I’m the father in this picture. I was understandably reluctant to have my picture taken, but I must have relented on a particularly unfortunate day. The pornstache, the pudge, the restrained toddler and squashed-face baby, and the violin that nobody played….all a perfect family tableau. I do not miss the 90s.”
(submitted by Mark)
