On the other side of the lens

Everyone has a picture taker in their family, right? The one who is never in the pictures because they are always behind the lens? I'm that person. I'm bizarrely absent from my life in the albums I like to scrapbook. And, deciding to take pictures as a secondary profession didn't do me any favors.

This weekend, I took Chad to Missouri for his 40th. His best friend from high school, Scott, went with us along with his wife. Katherine and I had LOTS of free time on our hands as Chad and Scott fished both days we were there. Along with all the beautiful photos of the property we took, we decided to do a mini photo shoot of each other.

Katherine is photogenic. Pause. There's weight in that sentence. Katherine is photogenic. Me? Not so much. I'm too uncomfortable...too goofy for photgenicness (I know it's not a word). Behold the awkwardness...



Here's my attempt at the hair flip. Kind of doesn't work in a still shot.



Here's my attempt to 'just act natural'.




Here's my flirty attempt at the pouty lips thing.


Here's...well, I don't really know what this is.



This may be my attempt to do some GQ-type modeling. Might have worked better with an actual watch.


More awesome magazine modeling.


Here's the result of my 'being playful.' These two sticks were having an epic imaginary battle. What's more playful than that?


Here's my contemplative look. I'm contemplating the stickness of the stick.


Action shot. Too bad there's so much backside.

And finally, the only picture that turned out really well. Note the obvious lack of my face.