{"id":1482,"date":"2011-12-16T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:02:58","slug":"christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I followed a link from EPUK <\/a>to a page of the worst 53 family Christmas cards<\/a> (French text), my first thought was of the image selected by David Cameron for his card this year. While I wouldn’t want for a moment to be rude to the photographer, who I’m sure didn’t take it to be used as a card, the image by Stefan Rousseau<\/a> does seem a little close to those included in that list, most of which came from another site, BuzzFeed<\/em>, in a feature The Most Awkward Family Holiday Photos<\/a>,\u00a0 who credit most to the\u00a0 awkwardfamilyphotos<\/a> site, which has quite a range.<\/p>\n

Of the three main party leaders, the one who wins my vote for his card is definitely Nick Clegg, who used a drawing by his kids. Miliband’s family snap, again by Rousseau, is a nice happy family snap, though considerably dragged down by a border of Xmas clip art.<\/p>\n

It’s a long time since I felt it appropriate to send out a family picture as a Christmas card, and the only time I can recall doing so, it was a very straightforward and old-fashioned group, more or less one that could have been made as a daguerreotype, and its circulation was restricted to other family members who might have had an interest in how the kids were growing up.<\/p>\n

Photographer’s Christmas Cards, sent out mainly to other photographers and possibly clients, are a good opportunity to use your own work, though most of mine have not been even remotely Christmassy. I’ve kept quite a few that I’ve been sent over the years, and have often threatened to post a selection of them on the web.<\/p>\n

This year I’m sending a postcard with a detail of one of the images in the Secret Gardens of St John’s Wood show which I just happen to have around. The full image would have been better, but has an aspect ratio that doesn’t fit a standard postcard well.\u00a0 Just so that no one feels left out if they don’t get a print copy, here is the full image now:<\/p>\n

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\nGarden in St John’s Wood, May 2011 (rt click and select ‘view image’ for larger)<\/small><\/p>\n

Some years I have tried harder and found a suitable Christmas theme in an image. Here are some that I’ve used:<\/p>\n

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\nThe Muriel Lesters protest at offices of bomb makers Lockheed, Dec 2008<\/small><\/p>\n

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\nSantas protest at Church of England and Dept of Education & Skills, Westminster, Dec 2005<\/small><\/p>\n

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\nSanta proposes to Santa, Trafalgar Square, Dec 2006<\/small><\/p>\n

(I can’t remember now which of the dozen or so images I have that I used of the Santas engagement in Trafalgar Square. There is a different one in the 2006 book<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I followed a link from EPUK to a page of the worst 53 family Christmas cards (French text), my first thought was of the image selected by David Cameron for his card this year. While I wouldn’t want for a moment to be rude to the photographer, who I’m sure didn’t take it to … Continue reading Christmas Cards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}