Venture Glasgow

Several years ago, when my parents mentioned getting a family photograph, I had visions of uncomfortable posing and stiff smiles all round. However, I needn’t have worried. When we arrived at Venture, I was amazed by the cool and quirky images that were on the walls all around us; images of fun, laughter and not a forced smile in sight.
My parents, my sister and I were all shown into the studio, where a really cool photographer in jeans and a scruffy tshirt came in to chat with us. She told us to relax and enjoy ourselves, as we were about to have a photo shoot. This was like no photo shoot I had ever imagined.
Before long, she had us jumping up and down, running around, pulling silly poses and at one point we were even bounding around on space hoppers. It was so much fun to be messing around and having fun with my family and better still, for it to be captured in an honest family photo.
We were invited back several weeks later for a screening, where we sat on a comfortable couch and were shown all of the pictures that had been taken. They made us laugh and cringe and we were able to select which pictures we would like to have printed for our final purchase. We settled on a black and white Abbey Road style image that suited us perfectly and we returned home happy in the knowledge that we had a family picture we could be proud of.