Whenever I go on trips or vacations with my family, I almost always bring a camera along to take photos. Much of the photography I end up doing is candid, street-like photography. Sometimes I’m actually taking photos of my family; but other times, I’m trying to get photos of interesting things I happen to see in my environment as we’re walking along.

Typically, the children and my wife are in front of me. So when I go to take a photo, their backsides often end up somewhere in my shots…especially when I’m shooting at a wide angle focal length (which I usually am).

At times, this has driven me nuts. I’ll get these (at least to me) great street photos, but my son or daughter will be blocking a portion of the shot that messes it up! Sometimes I’m able to crop or Photoshop them out of the shot; but often, it’s not possible to remove them cleanly and I just have to accept the shot as is (either a ruined shot or somehow acceptable even with their backside in it).

On our latest family vacation, I again got a number of photos with their backsides (in a few cases, frontsides) in them. I thought it might be fun to actually highlight some of these instead of trying to fix or bury them as I usually do.

So these are from my latest family trip (two weeks this last August, 2013). If I get a positive response, maybe I’ll go back to our many previous family trips and assemble an even larger collection of these “From Behind” shots that I always seem to get in ample amounts…:).

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