Every year, just before the Fourth of July, we get our kids and our nephews together to take a pictures of them all for the grandparents.  It’s tradition.  You don’t mess with that, right?

The whole group is six kids all under eight years old – ranging from two to eight for realz (my wife just told me I was using “actually” too much).   How hard is it to get eight kids to look at you?

Actually (doh!), it’s not as bad as that looks. I was testing out the lighting and told them to relax.

Here is what’s cool about photographer’s kids. I just put mine on the log and got it one shot.

For me, the best shots came at the end of the session. I told them to just play. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – nothing beats taking a picture of a child just being a child.

And, ACTUALLY, that’s all I have to say in the post.

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