Saturday, July 26, 2008

camera hog

So my husband wanted a picture of him and our daughter yesterday. I prepard to take it, and as soon as she saw the camera, she lunged towards it. Thus the following shot:


She loves the camera, poses for the camera, smiles at the camera, and is quite sure she would like to eat the camera. We get one chance, sometimes less, to get her doing something picture worthy because our camera makes noises. And as soon as she's heard the "take a picture" sound, she turns towards the object of her desire. Sometimes she also hears the "turn on" noise, and then we miss the moment entirely. We also use it to take small videos, which have one of two action sequences. Either she is staring directly at the lens (in truth the small red light immediately next to the lens) with a constant banter of us, the parents, trying to get her attention back to what was worth recording in the first place ("baby girl, baby girl, look over here" - she ignores us), or it is the back of her head, with us carefully moving the camera so she won't realize she is being filmed.


Perhaps we have created this monster ourselves with our incessent first-time-parents photo taking... If our other kids have even half the pictures, they'll be swimming in photodocumentation for the rest of their lives.