technology Children understand digital cameras.

Posted April 27, 2005 • Comments Off on Children understand digital cameras.

I am at Lisa’s, for it is Wednesday. I’m waiting patiently while they put the girls to bed. From the time I got here, a little less than an hour ago, until bedtime began in earnest, about fifteen minutes ago, we played. It was fun. I have my camera with me, specifically for this possibility. I’m kind of tired of taking pictures of Max. He doesn’t do a whole lot yet. 🙂

And I still can’t really get out of work early enough to make it to the Mall well before sunset. Those days are near, though! Be prepared for a repeat of the late summer of ’03, when I was all about the D.C. tourism. This year I plan to hit some not-yet-photographed-by-me places like Meridian Hill Park and the National Cathedral. There will also be pictures of the Basilica from Meg’s graduation next month. The insides of the museums, however, are still really hard to get to before they close on weekdays.

So I thought I’d take pictures of Neva and Josie today. However, both Neva and Josie seem to understand that nowadays you can see the picture right after it’s taken, and both of them spent the picture-taking time doing this:

Me: Smile!

Child: *smiles*

Me: *pushes the button*

Camera: *focuses, causing a split-second delay*

Child: (during delay) I wanna see the picture! [Neva]; Piccah! [Josie]

Child: *begins to run around to my side of the camera to see the picture*

Camera: *takes picture*

Me: *dies*

Child: *laughs uproariously*

All I wanted was close-ups, which made this difficult, as there was not a lot of wiggle room in the framing. I was lying on the floor. I did get some good ones, but I took about thirty blurry, very close close-ups of very small faces. The good ones will be on my site by this weekend.

Alecia, I hope you’re happy.

P.S. There are pictures of Lisa and David too … I know some of you probably wonder about them.

P.P.S. I forgot Julie’s met them.