If you give a kid a camera…

The children have been taking turns borrowing Michael’s camera recently.  They have a ton of fun with it.  We end up deleting a whole lot of pictures, but some of them we keep for our own amusement.  Some of them are actually good. 

Tess.  She’s in focus, fairly well in the frame, and cute.  Perhaps a bit apprehensive, but definitely cute.

Naomi’s dolls.  They’re not necessarily the most interesting subjects, at least for some of us, but again, the photo is focused and we can tell what the photo is about.  (There are LOTS of pictures of Naomi’s dolls.)

Sim, with background of fire.  Pretty good.

We often get shots that we wouldn’t have taken ourselves, but they’re not terrible in themselves. 

St. Nicholas crafts, manger to fill with straw as we do good works, wedding picture of my parents, and weather meter.

Christmas gifts.  Granted, an exciting thing for kids.

Mary, from the Nativity set we have.  Somewhat overexposed, but a fair shot.

Children after their father’s heart.  They love fire.

Baby eating Mama’s face.  Always a winner.

Somebody’s game of SET.

Gingerbread house, placed on high shelf so as not to be eaten by younger siblings.  Taking photos of things is one way I’ve convinced Hannah she doesn’t have to keep everything.  Thank God.  I’m willing to put up with some disc space taken up by random photos in order to not have to KEEP the gingerbread house forever.

We then get the requisite shots with the subject just barely hanging on to the edge of the photo – or being cropped fairly severely.

Aaaaaand the self portraits.

Note the closed eyes because of the flash.

Naomi has figured out how to get herself in the frame.

Sim has not.  But isn’t there something mischievous about that particular cropping job?

Now the concentration begins…

…and we get the whole face!

Whoops.  But we can see that he has on his dragon costume.

Okay, we’ll get there.

Ha!  The lips emerge!  The camera angle makes him look quite a bit more jowly than he is in real life.

But we still have no chin.

The last one in this series, which managed to actually focus…on Sim!

My personal favorites are the ones Naomi took of herself looking…well, I don’t really know how to describe it.  Somewhat like Galadriel in The Fellowship of the Ring?  Remember the part where she gets all crazy and her hair flies all over?

I’m still not sure how she achieved that effect.  It’s pretty cool, though, you must admit.

Thank goodness we live in the digital age and all the pictures they took aren’t on film!