why are professional kid pics so CHEESY? (pic)

[fleabert]

What's with the empty chair? who am I waiting for, or who left? And I don't remember that bear, I would have rather held my ratty 'Baby Ann' doll, whose 3 inch long hair stood straight up on end for some unknown reason. I was cute though...

[MnFats]

1. because there is nothing at all candid about them.

they are so posed as to squeeze the life out of them.
get a camera and just shoot a bunch of pix ... if you get three or four good pix out of as many rolls of film you've done better than a studio shot.

[fleabert]

7. I agree, my best wedding pics were the b&w candid ones.

I told my photographer to shoot like mad for the candid ones, and I am so glad I did. The posed ones look, weird.

[sasquatch]

2. Maybe your Imaginary friend was sitting in the chair?

:shrug:

[fleabert]

8. ha, maybe. or maybe it was the photographer's imaginary friend?

I had my stuffed animals and dolls, they drowned out the imaginary friend and he left in a huff.

[Scooter24]

3. Sitting in the chair is so much more fun..

Though I didn't have a bear :(

[fleabert]

6. now that makes sense...although a suit on a baby doesn't.

did you have a board meeting to go to afterwards? LOL!

you are adorable.

[Scooter24]

10. argh..

I know. You would have to know my parents to understand the suit. In our house, we couldn't wear jeans, hats, tennis shoes, shorts or t-shirts to the dinner table. Though dinner usually lasted 10-min, it was still quite the annoyance.

What's funny is that if you notice my legs in the chair, I still to this day have a bad habbit of sitting like that. Even now..lol

[fleabert]

12. so, those are your fancy pants, for a fancy pants dinner?

LOL! too cute. even better that it wasn't just for the pic or a wedding, that you wore it other times too.

[Amfortas]

4. You are just tooo cute for words

nice excuse for wanting to show your cuteness though.

[fleabert]

5. thanks man.

you see right through-ooooo-oooo-ooooo meeeee!

(name that tune)

[Scooter24]

9. DJ Encore

"I See Right Through To You" :D

[fleabert]

14. nope, no cookies for you.

try again.

[Quixote1818]

11. Their is deep symbolism in this photo!

It's a fantastic piece of art.

The empty chair represents your empty life because you had no friends. The bear is symbolic of your crutch because you have no friends. Their is a hollow sad, lost look in your pasted on smile. You clutch the chairs arm as though it is the strong arm or your Dad who left the family just months before. It's pink color symbolic of your Innocent but already empty life. The rug you are standing on seems to almost be floating in thin are suggesting that you are about to go off the edge of the rug spiraling into insanity.

Then you scream! "I AM I SAID!" To no one their, and no one heard not even the chair!

In a nut shell the photographer saw that your life was over before it ever got started. You were doomed to always be escorted by an empty pink chair that does not listen to a word you say.

[fleabert]

13. Now that is something else!

I only take umbrage with the pasted on smile bit! Pasted? do 3 year olds know how to paste on a smile? LOL! My dad had left a few months before, how funny.

The chair is red on my monitor...does that change things for you?

[ET Awful]

15. The red just means you were more innocent, the pink is a fading

red, thus indicating fading innocence :).

[Misunderestimator]

16. Not professional, but this is my favorite baby pic...

taken in 1962 by my father:

[Maddy McCall]

19. Great photo.

The look in both mom's and babe's eyes when breastfeeding cannot be replicated in a studio.

Your mother is a beautiful woman.

[radwriter0555]

17. dead grandma's ghost is perched in that chair... can't you see her?

**BOOO!**

[RetroLounge]

18. Well, then what the heck am I doing here?

Holding my imaginary Bear?



RL

[Misunderestimator]

20. Or a Beer Stein, maybe?

Cute picture!

[RetroLounge]

21. or a Pony Keg perhaps

RL

[mondo joe]

22. Thast's Elijah's chair.

Now go get him his wine you little goyish punk.

[Tuttle]

23. spectacular photos

taken five years ago

latest in this series

I think it's going in a coffeetable book called 'Growing Up'

The photographer is one of the greatest -- my daughter (8 years old) shocked him by pointing at one of the portraits at his studio and saying "That's Condoleeza Rice!"

Every year we get another photo/portrait. I have no idea how much it would cost if he charged us: he really enjoys his work and loves my daughter's attitude.

Check out his site -- http://www.howardschatz.com -- lots of amazing stuff.

Tut-tut

[Longgrain]

24. Why are baby clothes so chessy...

probably the first, and last time I wore an article of clothing with a poodle on it...