"I've always enjoyed taking candid pictures of people," says an otherwise artless Angstrom. "That's the only way to really get the person you know and love on film. Posed pictures are great for posterity, but it's not what you see everyday. The laughs, the spontaneous smiles, the pensive, thoughtful looks. Those can only be captured through candid photography."

"I've been wanting to get a digital camera for quite a while now, so that I can just snap like crazy and not have to worry about film processing costs. I took 207 pictures over Christmas and New Year's."

Angstrom reports that he got approximately 14 good pictures over the holidays.

"I was very happy to have 14 good pictures," says Angstrom, "but I was truly amazed that the other 193 pictures were of my friends and loved ones making funny faces."

"It's a common misconception," says photography professor Chad Baylor, "that the camera can somehow capture all the love you feel for a person or the humor in a situation. And, of course, in the hands of a professional, it can. But a digital camera in the hands of a rank amateur is only going to lead to embarrassment. People's faces do very funny things when expressing emotion. If you aren't trained in when to release the shutter, you might as well be drawing funny caricatures of them on the boardwalk."

"Take my wife," says Angstrom, "She is apparently ALWAYS blinking. I've taken two pictures of her so far with her eyes all the way open. It kind of explains her driving."

"And I never noticed how much Aunt Sally eats. I have 20 pictures of her, in each one she's cramming something different in her face. In this one it's chips, then pie, and in this one it's chicken wings. That's interesting because we didn't even have chicken wings at that party! Where'd they come from, her purse?"

Angstrom also reports that some of the funny faces appear to be deliberate. "Look at my Father. He won't let his guard down. I could not get a picture of him without him looking down or making a goofy face of some sort. What kind of defense mechanism is that? Like it's such a big freakin' inconvenience to just sit there like you've been doing all damn day? You have to go out of your way to make sure I don't have a decent picture of you?"

Some experts think Angstrom's disappointment with his yield of usable pictures may just due to the fact that he has surrounded himself with ugly ass people.