Portraiture

I hate portraits. I much prefer candid shots, though candid shots of me are always of me laughing or eating or making some weird face. I don't mind the photographer saying "please pause what you are doing and smile at me for a second" but I really don't like posing.

I think it's because I was a flower girl so many times, and there are just SO MANY portraits of my family in the Philippines that I'm just tired of them. There are dozens of photos, all looking exactly the same, except the bride and groom are different and the children are younger or older, depending on whose wedding it was. YAWN.

Of course, my mom will insist on some portraits, and of course I will appease her on that. But I'm going to do a lot of them my way.

Case in point:


This one's kinda cute except I HATE kissing pictures:


Images from Travis Hoehne Photography.

Actually I hate POSED kissing pictures. If it was a photo that caught a moment we thought was private and unseen then it's okay, I guess.