I just looked at the pictures I took Sunday for our church directory, and I am needing an appreciative coaching pep talk. You know what that is, right? Appreciative Coaching is using positive questions, mindfulness, and other tools to acknowledge the strengths of individuals and effect change. It’s the subject of a book written by Sarah Orem, a faculty member at Capella (where you can earn a college degree online. Just sayin’.)

See, I’m upset because I got 5 or 6 six bad shots out of 47. I mean most of them came out professional quality, and I’m all hang dog. And I know what the problem was with the bad shots. It’s the way the faces on the men look to me. I’m five feet tall, and we have several very tall men in the congregation. My eye compensates for the angle at which I typically view them, but the camera does not. I can fix this by standing on a stool. It is not a big deal. But I am majorly upset over this, and I don’t understand why. It’s not like the pictures are hideous, they just aren’t great. And for every one that’s “not great”, there’s at least one that’s phenomenal. I am my own worst critic. Still.

Oh, and when I say phenomenal, I mean shots like these:

Yeah, these are my kids. I’ve got ones of church members that are equally fine, I just haven’t asked permission to put them on the internets.

There would be more portraits, but he got “done”. I’ll be back to let you know which of these is the PAD.

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