The Theme Song Was, 'Yooooou Light Up Maaah Liiiiiife.'

I saw a movie once, I can't remember the name...The Promise? Maybe?

Anyway, the gist of the story was that an photographer fell in love with a rich guy, whose parents hated her and the couple didn't care because they were in loooove and they buried a cheap-ass necklace somewhere and then she got into a disfiguring car accident and the parents would pay for surgery to make her look good again but the deal was that she'd have to leave their son alone.

Whatever.

I must have seen this movie at an impressionable age because it spurred in me two things: One is the fear of driving behind any flatbed truck carrying anything that looks questionably fastened. The second, is the love of cameras and taking pictures. 

Shortly after seeing that movie, I learned that my mother had a manual 35mm camera and, Super-Excited, I proceeded to take it into the yard and click away at many, many masterfully framed shots of yardage, only to discover that there was uh, no film in the back of the camera.

Although I majored in photography in art school (back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the photo majors pulled all nighters in actual darkrooms filled with actual chemicals and poor ventilation,) my work was nothing better than mediocre.  I can frame up a shot, no doubt.  All the fussy details tripped me up, though.  You know.

Anyway.

The long ass background is only to frame this up for you:

My daughter is obsessed with cameras.

Ob. Sessed.

Maybe it's because when she was young and impressionable, she broke my shit. Or maybe, it's just in the genes. Or the age. Whichever, I don't care.  It is an obsession I understand and am happy to abide.

I bought her a kid camera for her birthday two days ago.

She's already taken about 250 pictures.

Oh. Mah. GAH.

If I thought it was hard to cull and trash some of my OWN pictures, let's just say that I better get a better laptop and about 5389503 external disc thingies on which to store these images.

I am ENTHRALLED, friends.  Amazed. Absorbed by what fills her viewfinder.  Her viewpoint. Her heart. 

These images, almost abstract in their up-closeness.  Snapshots of her day to day.

They kill me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
  

Comments

[Debbie, i obsess]

Delicious. I've got some of that kinda shot waiting to be unpacked into a folder on my 'puter too.

Love your front door, btw, if that doesn't creep you out. It's one of my favorite door styles. (Hi! Nerd for design! *waves nerdily*)

[Carrie]

Yeah, based on a book by Danielle Steel. Let's not discuss how I know that.

Isn't it fun getting a chance to see the world through her eyes? Many more good times ahead - enjoy!

[Lori]

Her feet are my favorite. I want to bite them.

[Manic Mommy]

Your kid camera definitely takes better pics than our kid camera. I end up letting the boys use my point and shoot Canon. I too love the candids but tend to delete the 400 pictures of the fireplace.

[Forgotten]

I am totally going to get my kids one of these cameras for each of them. My son took the camera that my little sister (adopted so quite a bit younger than me) has and took a ton of really awesome pictures so I will have to get one of these cameras so I can see what he finds interesting, too.

:-)

You made me smile really big today.

[Fairly Odd Mother]

Oh, you are making me wish I had actually downloaded some of my son's photos. He's had a digital camera for years and I've never downloaded a single photo (I think it deletes old photos to make way for new ones; either that or it has 4 gazillion bytes of memory.)

[Rachel]

Love them! I often find a few (dozen) surprise pics on my camera - usually of stuffed animals, the cats, a foot...

[Amy Jo]

I bought my son one of those right before his thrid birthday and he went nuts. The only trouble is, once he got a little older he wanted a 'real' camera. Luckily for me, my parents were due for a new digital camera, so they gave him their old one. But now he's asking to use my DSLR! Maybe for his 5th birthday...

[Motherhood Uncensored]

Ha. Well. I guess the shutterbug doesn't fall far from the lens cap, eh?

[Linda]

My kid LOVES his camera! My favorite picture so far is the one of his shadow in the water off my parent's dock.

[a]

My girl got a hold of the camera on my phone and took tons of pictures. I'm thinking that a nice indestructible digital camera would be a good thing for her birthday. Isn't it amazing what they want to take pictures of? Their perspective is so different and interesting!