For some time you've been asking to use my camera. Slowly and with lots of supervision I've been giving you my digital camera to take photos for the last few months. You wrap the strap around your left wrist and carefully lift the camera up, mindful of your fingers in front of the lens, positioning your fingers over the shutter button, holding the camera still...all the tips we've been teaching you.
It amazes me to see the quality of the photos you are already taking. Of course, like any photographer there are many that are out of focus, badly composed or obscured by fingers. There are also a many that are of the floor, the table top, people's feet and the grass. But for your age it's fascinating to watch how confident and inquisitive you are about snapping away at the world around you.
Mirroring the fact that daddy and I have undoubtedly taken thousands of photos of you since you were born you easily aim the camera at us, instructing us to say 'cheese' before snapping away. I still find it a bit weird to be the subject of your photos; more often than not I'm the one behind the camera. But I'm happy to be captured by you. It gives me some idea of what you see, and how you perceive the world around you.
Yesterday you took some photos of me at the shopping centre. In the spirit of writing about all the things you do that bring joy into my life I'm sharing those photos on the blog today as they are infinitely more personal and interesting than any of the photos I took of you sitting in the big red car or sliding face first down the slide.
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