As I was composing a post for HDYDI last week, I went looking for a picture of my kids to use. I wanted one of the two of them together. I had to go back six weeks to our Disney trip to find an even remotely acceptable one.
I had heard that the intensity of documenting everything on (digital) film would drop off after my kids turned one, but for me, it held out until about two and a half.
I have noticed that I am not carrying my camera around nearly as much as I used to. Could be that I got a little burned out. Could be that the travel potty takes up space in my purse so I don’t have as much room for my bulky camera. Could be that the kids move a lot faster these days and, while fairly cooperative, are just that much harder to capture. Could be that the ways in which they’re developing are not as easily visible and photographed as back in the days of learning to sit or walk or climb. Could be the dreariness of being indoors all winter and the photographic challenges of shooting in low light. Could be just plain laziness. Even when I do have my camera, I don’t seem to have the pull to snap away with the frequency that I used to.
Regardless of the motivation, I am hoping that the relative improvement in weather and increase in outdoor play will result in more, better pictures coming soon. In the meantime, the iPhone is there to capture things like Rebecca’s insistence on hanging upside-down on the monkey bars, “mama, don’t hold me!”
And I jumped on the Hipstamatic bandwagon, making this phone shot of Daniel (sitting in the sandbox lid) appear way more interesting than it might have otherwise been.
And I haven’t neglected my camera completely. Sometimes I manage to capture something in the moment. The shot isn’t perfect, but who can argue with the double-daddy pony ride?
I still have my camera with me, if I have the kids with me. It’s been four years! My neighbours actually expect me to be the group photographer, whether it’s someone’s birthday party or an impromptu sprinkler dance on the lawn.
That last photo is just perfect.
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I don’t take as many either! I need to work on that.
I think its a great picture!
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Oh Goddess…that last shot is TOOO cute. Cannot get over how big R & D have gotten…and it DOES get harder to “document.” We have so many videos of the “early” days…hardly any in the last year or so.
Hope you all are doing well.
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Um, totally guity at Month 13 of taking far less pictures of Cameron. But your post has inspired me to whip out the camera this weekend. We are having an outdoor play date so it will be a great opportunity for cute shots of Cameron with her “boyfriends”.
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I love the double daddy pony ride one! So cute!
We got a new camera (though nothing as fancy as yours) for Christmas, and for a while I was trying to be good about taking pictures at least several times a week. But it ended up being the kids doing the same things over and over, just in different clothes. It’s hard feel inspired to take photos when life seems much the same every day. But I have a private family blog too and I try to post photos there monthly. Realizing that I had nothing but Easter photos for April, I figured I’d better get cracking. So on Monday I found myself snapping away again as we spent some time outside before the predicted showers were to come. They aren’t the greatest, but they’ll have to do.
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I must be some kind of shutter freak. I filled an 8Gb card, and a 16 Gb card with pictures this last month. Could be that I am also just now learning all the cool stuff you can do with the camera when you take it off autopilot.
Great pictures. Cute post. Thanks.