Some ideas work better than others --for sure. When I photographed Dusting, Cori and Jovi two weeks ago I missed a chance to take a fun photograph of their feet. Dustin's feet were quite lined with sandal tan lines and Jovi and Cori had painted their nails earlier. I didn't see the picture until I was editing their family portraits. When I dropped off some proofs to them I asked to take the picture. Dustin's tan didn't seen quite as deep and the lighting I just didn't quite get right(I thought I did at the time!) and for Jovi this was play time with daddy who had just gotten home from work. Even though I didn't really get the picture I think this could've been, I still liked it as a spin off to the family portrait--I see this sort of picture as a conversation piece--one of those fun pictures that is hung in a hallway or next to a cabinet that a dinner guest might stumble upon while sipping a glass of wine and get curious enough to ask about it. Then the stories about mommy and Jovi spending a fun hour painting each other's nails comes up, and how Dustin's job at the marina gives him his perpetual sandal tanned toes and how this funny little photographer thought this would make a neat family portrait. SayerMotter photograph by Richard Sayer