Scrapbooking in a unusual way

I love and appreciate a beautiful scrapbooking page but some pictures require something simpler.

 

Our son was born 6 1/2 weeks early at 3 pounds 7 ounces.  We brought him home at 2 1/2 weeks (a full month BEFORE his due date!) and my sweet husband came up with a stroke of genius.  On his due date, we created a backdrop with an old white sheet, placed him on an oak chair with a yardstick and shot away with the cameras.  We've made it  tradition to take his picture in the same chair every year on or close to his birthday.  As tempting as it was to make those first pictures (taken on his due date) "cute," I decided to scrap all his "Chair Pictures" on plain black cardstock.  I've used a variety of ways to lay the pictures out (we take a few hundred every year), sometimes cutting our son's image out, sometimes laying out a series of photos to convey the motion he was making in that moment, but always on plain black cardstock. 

 

Whenever I scrapbook, I ask myself, "What do I want to convey?"  For these pictures, the answer is, "his essence," so I don't want to fancy that up. 

 

 

To me, this is what my boy looks like at nine years old:  slightly silly; all feet and big, expressive eyes; not caring a whit that his hair is messy and he has a hole in his jeans.  

I just don't want to mess with that.