Showing posts with label Emily's photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emily's photos. Show all posts

Saturday, April 07, 2007

A Diane Arbus in the making

When my old digital camera died, I gave it to Emily to play with. There were no batteries in it and for a while she was satisfied with just pretending. But then she asked for batteries so she could take pictures. I decided to show her how to use it and see what would happen. What has happened is a wonderful, huge collection of photos that Emily has taken herself. After only a few days, she has figured out how to take photos (and not just of the floor anymore), how to review her photos and I think she's teaching herself the zoom function already. Beth asked that I put some of her photos up here.

I know it is just a two-year old fooling around with a camera but to me it is also a glimpse into how she sees the world, how she interprets it... and what it's like to be so freaking short.

Being that there were a few I wanted to put up, I decided to post them through Flickr. Here is a taste of what you'll see there: