{"id":615,"date":"2011-07-16T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/howie-our-photographic-challenge.html"},"modified":"2011-07-16T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T04:17:00","slug":"howie-our-photographic-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/howie-our-photographic-challenge.html","title":{"rendered":"Howie – Our Photographic Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Photo by Fotomom<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

While Maryann AKA Fotomom<\/a> was here visiting last week she took a really sweet picture of Howie in our kitchen.  After she got home this week, she took some time to dress up the picture and wrote a lovely blog post about him<\/a> and how she made the great picture!<\/p>\n

Photographers have been challenged many times with Howie.  Here are a couple of the not-so-great professional family pictures with Howie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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November 2002.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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October 2005.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Howie does a good job with sitting still and letting the camera do his thing (hint: just say the magic word, “WALK?” and he’ll look right at you attentively!), if only he showed up better-looking…Maryann got it right by taking advantage of the white-colored setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by Fotomom. While Maryann AKA Fotomom was here visiting last week she took a really sweet picture of Howie in our kitchen.  After she got home this week, she took some time to dress up the picture and wrote a lovely blog post about him and how she made the great picture! Photographers have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[15,30,80,621],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-9V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":603,"url":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/our-guests-for-the-week-and-my-favorite-sign.html","url_meta":{"origin":615,"position":0},"title":"Our Guests for the Week…And My Favorite Sign","date":"04 July 11","format":false,"excerpt":"This week we have friends from North Carolina visiting: Maryann (AKA Fotomom), Joey and Johnny. \u00a0Jacob and Joey were in the same preschool from 2005-2008 and were two peas in a pod, while Timmy and Johnny were best buddies as the respective little brothers. \u00a0We took dozens of great road\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ciY_Gt5F6Ts\/ThIfRhb6fzI\/AAAAAAABXYI\/_gWvPG7rqCE\/s640\/Timmy_Johnny_PNSAirport.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":344,"url":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/04\/iphoto-for-a-good-laugh.html","url_meta":{"origin":615,"position":1},"title":"iPhoto — For a Good Laugh","date":"21 April 09","format":false,"excerpt":"So I'm having a grand old time working on organizing my photos on my Macbook. \u00a0There's software called \"iPhoto\" that seems quite intelligent.I've already imported all my pictures from our desktop (32,000+ photos, about 30GB).So one of the features I'm having fun with is iPhoto's Face Recognition program. \u00a0Called \"Faces\",\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"computer\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":111,"url":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/03\/you-wont-see-this-on-animal-planet.html","url_meta":{"origin":615,"position":2},"title":"You won’t see THIS on Animal Planet!","date":"30 March 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Here, play this song to set the mood.From 2008 03 29 NC...Yes, you're seeing what you think you're seeing here. 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