Whatever your beliefs I want to wish everyone in this generous and warm-hearted forum peace, blessings and the happiest of New Years. Your photography is inspiring and this particular community of picture sharers is simply the best.
My kids and I brainstormed ideas for our annual greeting card this year. The puppet idea prevailed (nothing could be further from the truth in terms of "control"). The "looking down" has an ironic component as the three boys are over 6 feet. From left: Elizabeth 5'5' (19) at George Mason University, David 6'4" (22) 7 months out of U. Va., Tristan (lil Fremiet) 6'3" (18) a senior in high school, hoping to attend Kenyon College in Ohio, and Sacha 6'2" (19) a freshman at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. They are what family is all about, a fun, awesome bunch!!
Technically, separate images of each of the kids, Joan and I were in the same image as the background. I extracted us and then replaced us after finding edges and desaturating the pic. I drew in the woeful controls. Fremiet