Thursday, October 02, 2008

Every once in a while, I get the urge to head out the to the park to photograph my kids and their friends. My thinking is that it gives me the opportunity to practice my technique a bit without any pressure and I get to spend time with my friends at the same time. A while back, I did exactly that-well, sorta. I went with my MOMS Club to Landa Park for some duck feeding and playground playing, armed with a loaf of bread and a camera and psyched for awsome images of the kids.

Why doesn't anything seem to go as planned? As I've said before, I have a very hard time watching my kids and photographing at the same time. My mind just can't go in both places at once. So I got home, downloaded the images and, not being thrilled with them, forgot all about them until today.

For the last couple of days I've been cleaning up my hard drive-getting rid of images that I don't intend to keep, and so I took a second glace at the images from that day. Well hey-some of them aren't too bad.

This curly-haired little beauty is quickly becoming one of my daughter M's BFFs.


This is her mom, preparing to take a picture of her on the slide:



This is my version of the picture:


There is this little chair at the park which uses gravity and (I think) centrifugal force to spin. M thought is was so much fun because all you have to do is sit there, and it spins on its own. But it keeps going faster and faster. Just a few moments after this image was taken she was spinning out of control and screaming in terror-I think if I hadn't caught her in time she would have catapulted 10 feet, at least!



Of course, T had to try the chair from hell, with the hope of "flying like superman" but boring mom kept stopping him before he took flight. I think this image was taken as he was repeating "Mom, just let me go. I promise I won't get hurt." Yeah, right.

This one is a little dark, I could brighten it in Photoshop, but I usually reserve that step for photos that get printed.


So I'll continue to delete and move images, and maybe I'll come across a few more gems that I can post here.

Peace!
~L

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