Back in July of last year I shot some family portraits for a friend from work. I shared some of those images from that shoot in a blog post called Family Portrait. When I shot those photos I had enough people to try an idea I have been thinking about. I laid on the ground and shot the group as they circled around me. It was a fun experiment and it paid off. I posted the image on my Flickr stream and was contacted in February from a photo editor for London based magazine Photography Monthly. They had an article idea for interesting family portraits and they wanted to use my photo in the article.

This is another example that you should always try to experiment and try something new. It may not work out but when it does people will take notice. I have taken this to heart and now try to think of new ways to do things in my photography and also in my day-to-day work life.

Here is a tear sheet from the article. They mention I used a Canon 1Ds MkII which was not the case. I used a Canon 5D.