Adoption Profile Photographs: Ideas Galore!
Feeling stumped about your adoption profile photographs? Need some ideas for what kinds of photos to include? We have some!
- Doing things you love: attending a concert or a ballgame, fishing, cooking, knitting, volunteering, biking, running a 5K, hiking, playing cards, other hobbies
- Activities with friends and family: a mother’s day brunch, a trip to the beach, “movie night,” an afternoon together, at the Farmer’s Market, clowning around, out to dinner, cookout
- Events: at a wedding or baptism, celebrating a birthday or anniversary, your recent graduation from college
- Activities with kids:* playing games, at the park, sledding, going to the zoo, at a swimming or gymnastics lesson (*nieces, nephews, friends’ children; in other words, kids you really spend time with)
- You doing things around your house: cooking, eating, watching TV, pursuing a hobby (playing piano, knitting, etc.) … even cleaning, working, reading, doing outdoor chores
- Group shots of the extended family: cousins, grandparents, aunts, uncles
- Your home and neighborhood: inside and out, the nursery you’ve prepared, your yard, if it’s nice, a local park and/or playground, you taking a walk around the neighborhood or visiting a park (if you really do these things)
- Other: holidays, travel/vacations, your pets
- Work-related: making a presentation, receiving an award, posing with students, clients or co-workers
If you are really stumped, you may want to hire a photographer for a half day or so to take photos. A photographer could do photos of your home and neighborhood and you doing things around the house, for example. (See above.)
Ask friends or members of your extended family if they have photos they would be willing to share, such as group shots of family, wedding photos, holiday or birthday gatherings.
Finally, always remember that, if your profile is going to be printed, take photos at the largest size you can – especially images you may want to use on the cover.
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