The Family Portrait Photographer

despite the fact that such a skill has been overrun by the digital cams at home, the PC that can pump out the cheaper pics that are so clear that one wonders why they ever paid another to prop them up against a hanging piece of old felt squashed against family members in hope of a spontaneous smile, the family portrait photographer still huffs it to the job be them with family or without in some way jealous of the families that come in & in other ways disgusted, but either way they document lives for the moments & find themselves withering away at the job wondering what will happen when the digital eliminates their occupation entirely--- they tell themselves that they will freelance, but at the age that they are pushing it just isn’t realistic, because all the kids have taken over even that aspect of the skill, again, with the digital revolution--- the overwhelming sense of frustration & anxiety enters their veins as they help the children up to sit next to their parents or tell the young couple to hold one another & the build up of emotion must be hid behind the fake smile which looms from behind the camera telling the occupants of the coming photo to “say cheese,” or some other such nonsense.