Anthon as a budding photographer

When I was younger I remember distinctly lining up my stuffed animals and sticker books outside on the brick wall of the front yard and taking pictures of them. I even wanted to dress up my dogs in hats and baseball jerseys and take pictures of them to use as "baseball cards"...for dogs. I guess at an early age I really liked photography.

In a similar vein my son has been bitten with the photography bug. And as parents we've found an incredibly HUGE carrot to dangle in front of my son to behave. And thankfully, with digital technology we don't have to develop anything...all we have to worry about is Anthon not breaking the camera and deleting most (all?) of them.

I won't lie, he's making progress with his photo-taking skills. At first he struggled with getting the subject in the picture. Hence you'll see pictures of my stomach. Then he struggled with putting his finger over the flash. So we had a bout of really dark shots. Now we're working on keeping the camera still when shooting. I think you'll find he's pretty good at the self portraits.

Nothing is more lame, I know, than looking at someone's else's pictures. And I'm sure it's worse to look through some 4 year old's pictures. I include these pictures for the humor. If you know my son then you might be able to channel the joy he takes in shooting for fun of it.

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