This is one of my favorite family photos. I took this at a memorial day parade about 4 years ago. My cousin Seth and my uncle David seem to be the subject of a lot of my photos, but this is one that really makes me happy. it reminds me of how close my family is to each other. Imm an army brat, and so almost all my photos tend to reflect that. I really wish that i had an extremely powerful, tear jerking story behind this one, but it was just a snap shot after a parade that my uncle and I had participated in.
To critique the picture: it's too dark, but I think that if I would have used flash, then it would have ruined it. I also wish that I was a little bit closer, the trees in the background tend to distract a little bit. However, I do like how the trees are blurred in the photo, making the photo speciffically about them. I also like the contrast between my cousin and uncle, my cousin, lighter; reflecting his young and innocence; whereas my uncle is darker; reflecting his not so innocence and age. When I first developed the picture I wished that they had smiled, but now I'm glad that they didn't because it would have looked too staged. I like the candid idea and the memory of my family's closeness.
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