Treehugging

Some time ago, while taking pictures in Central Park with some co-conspirators, I became criminally excited about the idea of taking a picture in which we were all standing behind a tree, but leaning out so you could see our heads. In my mind, this was an established genre of photograph that I wanted to be a part of. My "co-conspirators" told me this was the stupidest idea ever. I think you know what I thought then:



Then when I went to write this indignant post, there was absolutely no phrase I could google to find you an example of this type of pose. When I Googled....

"picture people behind tree", I got:



"four people leaning out from behind a tree" resulted in:



"friends behind tree photo" came a little closer:


(but still unforgivably lamer than my original vision.)

and "posed picture behind tree" bordered on the pornographic.


So I decided to draw an example for you in Paint:


(And it was my first time using Paint! Can you believe it?)

Now that you have some idea of the magic I had in mind, here is how our picture came out (faces have been obscured with Paint to protect the innocent):



I believe the internet phrase for this would be "Tree Photo FAIL."