I'm not a rational man when it comes to kid pics these days, but I'm pretty sure the old, hard me would also find her sweet. The first pic looks a teeny bit posed, in the sense that she looks as if she's held that position a mite too long or too often, and it's stopped being genuine. I personally find the crate and background distracting, as they're out of keeping with the formality of her pose and the lighting. There also looks to be a fair bit of flare from the brighter part of the backdrop on the left. All nits, but in this sort of thing its the nits which make the difference between a pic you for your mum and a pic for your portfolio.(posted 8221 days ago)The second image is much better of her, but her dad doesn't look too chuffed. My experience of family group shots is that the number of required frames goes as the sixth power of the number of of faces, but you're only on the toe of the curve here.