How much of you is there in your books?

I have exactly the same problem! I have oodles of pictures of my son, friends, family, etc. Heck, I have a bunch of pictures of a dog I dog-sat. But for myself, it seems, I am the one looking through the lens, capturing the moment. Granted, when my son was little, it was more of a staged moment as I gritted my teeth and hissed, "Just hold still for two minutes and smile." LOL I have been thinking about all the times I am out and about with family and friends. I feel so awkward about asking them to take a picture of me. Just me. I think my solution will be to enlist the aid of a third person as I get pictures with myself and another person. Perhaps it has to do with being raised to not be vain. However, is it really vanity to do a scrapbooking page that features yourself? I don't think I could bring myself to do that. Between it being a vanity and me beingwho I am, not because of myself, but because of so many others. I think they should be included.

Yes.....since I was the one that was always doing the picture taking so the pictures of my kids when they were younger alot of times don't include me.....but now my sisters and I cover for each other..and if I am on vacation and see someone taking pictures of like their family I'll offer to do a picture with them in it too...and you would be surprised how appreciative they are!

Oh thats funny! I was thinking the same thing! I guess its because we are always the ones taking the pictures! I know a few times I will ask my husband to take a picutre but you know how men are I get that grunt and a fine. Then I am annoyed so the pictures aren't the best. Also I am going through a I feel "fat" stage in my life so most of the pictures that are taken of us I don't like anyway. Most every picture in my scrapbooks are my jsut my daughter. There are a few with daddy or grandma even the dog but most are just her.

That same thing crossed my mind a short while back. I'm always the one taking the pictures, not in them. We have gone camping numerous times, and I have done layouts of them, but, I'm not there lol. So last time, I set the timer, my s/o was still sleeping in, and took some pics of me at our campsite. I have also traded pics with my daughter, when we all did something together and she had pics with me in them. But, for the most part, it's pictures of my s/o, my daughters, family and our dog (she has her own scrapbook lol). And no, I don't think it's dumb to ask someone to take a picture with you in it. Several times that me and my daughter went somewhere on a day trip, we would ask someone if they minded taking our picture.

Of course that isn't dumb. I noticed immediately that I was the one taking pictures so now we make sure I am in some with my daughter. Of course There are more of my daughter alone or with her daddy or others but still I am now in more. Go ahead and ask people. People would love to help you out.

Same problem at my house. I am the photo taker, have been all my life. I am not comfortable in front of it - although I am much better now. And am more prone to asking me to take pictures of me than I used to be. My husband will grab the camera every once in a while and take pictures of me with the kids. He has done it more now because he looks back the scrapbooked photos and noticed that I wasn't in there.

The only pics I have of me are when we went and had pics made professioally and when I was in the hospital having my babies. I look worse the ever but that is when people want to take over the camera. 3 hrs after giving birth to my 2nd child the camers came out. I never looked so bad in my life. But I do have a few that aren't so bad. But then again I was paying attention and she did tell me to say cheese.

i think it is a good idea to have some pictures with you and your children because this will give happy

I totally have this problem... i love taking the pictures but lately i have been making my Hubby takes some too so that we can have memories with all of us in them... and no i dont think its wrong to ask others to take your picture if you are out somewhere..

I have this same issue! I thought I was the only one..lol. I think I will have to start asking my daughter to take some pictures of me, and get myself in some of these scrapbooks....or the pictures at least. I want them to have something to remember me by. Thanks for posting this discussion!!