By The Way...

Monday, September 26, 2005
2:56:00 PM EDT
Hearing Fame -- David Bowie
How much do you trust the people you know with your camera? Because this week's photo shoot is all about trust:

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Give your camera to a child, friend, spouse or relative and have them shoot some pictures. Show us the pictures they take. This will be more fun if you have a digital camera, of course (because they can snap off a whole bunch of pics), and I also find it's a lot of fun to give the camera to small fry, because their perspective on what's photo-worthy is different than the rest of us.

As you can see from Athena's pictures to your right. I gave her my Kodak digital camera and told her to walk about the house and to take pictures of things she found interesting. The results are, from top:

1. A picture she drew a little while back of butterflies and flowers (which I used as my computer wallpaper for a while)

2. A picture of a kitten, which she has on the wall of her room, because when you're six, and a little girl, you dig pictures of kittens (note the shot is taken from the perspective of looking up at the picture -- a true little kid point of view)

3. Her stuffed dolls of Charles Darwin and Socrates, because doesn't every six-year-old girl have stuffed dolls of famous scientists and philosophers? No? Well, see, that's the problem with America right there. She's also got an Albert Einstein doll, which I've taken photos of before.

4. The huge stuffed unicorn she was provided by a dear friend last Christmas time. The thing is almost as big as she is, which is pretty impressive since Athena is pretty tall for her age.

5. Some idiot who lives with Athena. I don't know why she took a picture of him. I mean, look at him. Whoever he is, he's a very, very silly man.

Take the camera, give it to someone else you like or love, and show us the world through their eyes. This is one assignment that could be a lot of fun!


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• #31 Comment from lsfp1960 
  9/29/05 11:03 PM | Permalink

  John, there was no child around to take pictures, so I had to become child-like and do it myself.
  http://journals.aol.com/lsfp1960/LindasWorld/entries/697
• #30 Comment from tarastomsgirl 
  9/28/05 7:46 PM | Permalink

  Well after hearing that my husbands house was being sacked we decided to take a trip upto a tiny tiny town an hour south of canada called New Sweden, Maine.. some might remember it for the arsenic poisoning in the church coffee a couple years back.. My husband hadn't been back to his house in over 10 years and it was just left and boarded when he was a kid.. His house is well over 100 years old. This is what we found in a house abandoned for 10 years and sacked by the town.. i guess this counts since he took the pics not me.. they're less than 2 weeks old so they're recent enough
  http://journals.aol.com/tarastomsgirl/LifeisWonderful/
• #29 Comment from lurkynat 
  9/28/05 6:40 PM | Permalink

  Dear John,
  Bravo Athena! You wizard! I knew you had it in you!
  :):) nat
• #28 Comment from mlrhjeh 
  9/28/05 12:17 PM | Permalink

  I love this picture. It was taken by Michael ( 7 ) while he and his cousins were visiting Thomas, The Tank Engine.
  
  My daughter took this picture while Michael was taking his.
  
  Mary Louise
  
  http://journals.aol.com/mlrhjeh/gettingoldaintforsissiesandother/entries/1643
• #27 Comment from jamie24601 
  9/28/05 11:32 AM | Permalink

  I didn't have a kid to hand the camera to, so I had to settle for one of my husband's friends.
  
  http://jamie.scottandjamie.com/current.html#28
  
  Jamie

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