Here we are, another compelling installment of our ongoing series (not true, this is a first): “Sam I Am Not” or “Don’t Knock It Til’ You’ve Tried It”, I haven’t decided. In this series we highlight kid-specific activities, (crafts, tasks, chores and more!) gleaned from the web and elsewhere, aimed at making mince-meat of the monotony and slaying the daily mundane. Then we try them out and that’s when the fun ensues!
Today’s activity was prompted by this inspiring post from fellow dad blogger, Mike Smith, in which he expounds on the virtues of introducing your youngins to photography and its many splendors. The process is simple:
- Get your camera gear. (In our case a perfectly toddler-sized Canon Digital Elph SD1400 IS and any old SD card)
- Optional: Conjure your child’s ‘inner-Nonni’ (It quickly became apparent that J. Boogie got the good shutterbug genes from my hobbyist wife and her professional photographer mother.
- Get your kids and your patience and
- Get out into nature!
Here, have a look at the world through the untainted eyes of a three year old.
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- Funhouse Feet?
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- Christmas Bush?
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- A Crow On A Lamp Post is “Nature!”
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- Like Mama’s Photography!
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- Our Faithul Sidekick, T.T.
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- Oooooo Perty!
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- Somebody Misses Hawaii
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- And While We’re Shooting Rocks
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- Bird Of Paradise
“Yes, photography can stimulate creativity, teach life lessons, and take you to another place emotionally. Your focus will be outward, not inward. Your successes will be captured and your failures deleted. -Mike Smith”
To Be Deleted
Chalk another one up for the team! Thanks, again, Mr. Smith, for the inspiration and another priceless opportunity to show my girls the world, for taking pictures is truly…
“…savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” -Marc Riboud
Check THIS out for your little clickers!
Wow! Great photos by a talented little girl! Thanks for sharing my photo idea with your daughter. Photography is a great way for kids to notice their family and nature. I love the feet in the fender foto!!
Well, she sends her thanks for the kind words! I am always in awe of her creativity but fear she will have her Dada’s persistent lack of focus. It was both a shock and an honor to witness how determined she was on this particular excursion. Give this kid the proper tools and pertinent task and her focus has laser – like precision! The fender feet was my favorite photo too. So much “nature”, right out in our own concrete jungle! 😉
I shared your post on my facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/michael.b.smith.395
Much obliged, my new found friend.
Oh, Rachel, ya shoulda seen her glow! Thanks for the comment, lest we forget who this excercise was SUPPOSED to be for. I guess we both saw a few things through a brand new lens that morning.