Our friend Clark Mishler was kind enough to make another family portrait yesterday. He really is a master. There's an art to portrait photography, and he's unlocked it.
Of course, Ari is about the most challenging subject you could want to shoot. He won't stay in the picture, and he won't face the camera. It took all our inventiveness to come up with a solution.
In the first picture (the three of us), I'm dangling my car keys in my right hand, and he's begging me for them. In the second picture (of Ari alone), we produced at least the semblance of a smile by tossing his teddy ("white bear") through the air to the left of the camera.
Finally, we gave him white bear. You hand Ari white bear, and just like clockwork, he puts his first two fingers in his mouth, snuggles close to white bear's mouth, and closes his eyes. White bear is Ari's most cherished possession, and Clark's photos are among ours.
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