I managed to lock myself out of my websites and haven’t had any new Unknown Dog material for my regular readers. Both of you will happy to know that I am back in the saddle and will hope to have some catchup pics and posts for your consumption.
In the meantime, I’ve found that my kids love being photographers. We have a little camera that is drop proof, waterproof and all that jazz. The [Olympus Stylus 1050 SW] is surprisingly kid friendly, though it is clearly not targeted for kids. The happy coincidence that the 2 and 4 year old can easily press the button and get instant feedback from the big LCD screen on the back of the camera is ever so useful.
While I first handed the camera over to my budding Ansel Adams with a pretty fatalistic cringe and fire-and-brimstone threats, I’ve progressed to offering nothing more than a brief overview and a briefer warning. My prodigy child has instinctively grasped his father’s nuanced strategy towards quality photographs: The more pictures you take, the better the odds something will be in focus. Barring that, you might get lucky and make something that can be passed off as art.
It is very cool to see Gabe start to form some sense of composition, or at least stumble upon it by luck. The 3 pics below were Gabe products- I put them together and cropped the left and center panes to space the whole, but I didn’t monkey around with anything besides that. Blog format may truncate the pic, so get clicky on the zoom icon for the entire thing:
