I was walking our dog around the neighborhood one evening several years ago when I came across this small collection of pumpkins someone had set up in their yard a few days before Halloween. I liked the simplicity of the arrangement, and it made me think of the pumpkins as a little family who had come to get a portrait made. There was Papa Pumpkin, Mama Pumpkin, and their three little kids Betty, Susie, and Johnny. I quickly snapped a picture of it. Of course, in my haste, I not only captured an image of the pumpkins but also an image of undesirable problems. First, there are really two subjects in this image, the pumpkins and the trunk of the small tree. Both should be tack sharp, but neither is sharply focused because the f/4 aperture I used did not provide anywhere near enough depth of field. Second, it’s quite obvious that all I did was bend over a little bit and press the shutter button. Had I shot from a lower perspective, even at ground level, it would have made for a more interesting “portrait” of the Pumpkin family.