The next Ansel Adams

Jake has always loved the digital camera, both having his picture taken and then looking at the picture that was just taken of him. It makes it nearly impossible to take candid shots of him because he's always hamming it up as soon as he sees the camera around. And then it takes 4 hours just to take 5 pictures because as soon as you take one, he has to come around to see it on the screen. If you take another one, then he has to see the first one and the second one and so forth.


So we decided to give him a digital camera. It's our old camera that we haven't used for about a year so we figured if he broke it, it wouldn't matter much. Within 5 minutes, he dropped it right on the zoom button, but thankfully the camera itself still worked. He learned pretty quickly that if he wants to take pictures, he better have the strap around his neck.



Anyway, he loves the thing. He takes pictures of EVERYTHING and can usually fill up the memory card in about 5 minutes. Some of the shots have been funny, and some have even been pretty good, but most have been, um, interesting. I never realized exactly how my nose looked from the perspective of a 4 year old, but it ain't pretty. There have been lots of pictures of kneecaps, walls, floors (evidently, my floors aren't as clean as I thought), and the TV. Yes, he takes pictures of the TV while he watches it. Fun stuff. We had to draw the line at taking it into the bathtub with him, although (evidently) it has made it's way to the toilet with him...


So far, we have deleted all the pictures he has taken, mostly because it's faster than coming all the way downstairs and downloading them, and man he does not want to wait for that camera. But I think I'll start trying to save some of them so that he can have his own little album of his pictures.

Who knows, it just might be the start of a stunning portfolio.