Maybe we can pick somebody up and hold them over head. Thats the sort of thing I say to get families to have some fun, which also means they begin to pose less and act more like themselves. They get more natural expressions and their true personalities, at least their more laughing side of their personalities start to show. I've used lines like 'have you ever put you feet in daddy's mouth?" That one actually got one of the best reactions and one of my all-time favorite family portraits. Anything to get something other than the staged and stiff group. They don't always work out but they at least lighten up the mood a little and I hope make the experience a little less grueling on the ones who don't really want any part of having their picture taken. This was one of the shots from todays shoot with the Eisenhooth/Freysinger clan. I've now known these good folks for about a decade having photographed nearly all of them at one time for the New SayerMotter Photograph by Richard Sayer