Tuesday Tidbits: When Child Photographers Attack

When you let your two year-old use your camera, he will not use the large display screen to compose his shot. Instead he will hold the camera up to his squinched eye, even though there is no viewfinder. You will contort your body to try and stay in what you think is the frame. No need to say "cheese," because he chants "cheese! cheese! cheese!" like a mantra.

He also won't take care to compose pictures that don't show how messy the house is, as you see in the shot of the book room above. Or this Portrait of Mama with Pepsi and Socks.

And he does not consider the tops of people's heads to be really all that big a deal. He had just said, "Daddy, I'll take a cheese of you," and Matt barely had time to jump into the shot. Hank is not one of those difficult-to-work-with celebrity photographers, which makes up for his challenging and edgy compositions. Just one quick cheese and you're done. I think he's taking portraiture in a new, exciting direction. One that makes me seasick.

Then again, one of my favorite pictures of Laura was taken by our then-four year-old niece Ava.

And Laura got this one of Hank over the weekend. At Grandmama's house, you get to play with her little Christmas village, and you get to eat ice cream while you do it.

That is what I have for this Random Tuesday. In other news, I got my hair done. We went to Ikea last night, which for me, is like returning to the mother ship. And the class party is coming along nicely. That is all. But check out the more exciting lives of others over at Un Mom.