Somewhere along the line a photographer I worked with taught me to understand family portraits as a series of individual and group portraits. Many people approach a family as just on large group image. In reality there is such a wide variety of personalities and styles that make up that family. I like to work with individuals in the family, sections of the family and the whole group to tell the story of the family as a whole. It makes for much more interesting options in terms of prints on the walls, books that can be created and other ideas that might not have been dreamed up yet.