Family Life

I am finally up to date with our photos. I’ll be posting half a dozen or so every day on flickr until they are all online. Here’s a picture of Daniel climbing a tree last fall.

I noticed a few interesting things from the 800-odd photos I sorted through:

* Almost all the photos are snapshots. That is, no careful staging, composition, lighting, or technicalities of any kind. Just point and shoot.

* Most of the photos were taken with Debbie’s tiny little camera. My hefty behemoth didn’t make it out much, and when it did it was mostly for point-and-shoot snapshots.

* Apart from my commissioned work, every single photo was of the family, at home or on a family outing. I have to go back to my trip to Europe in August before I find photos taken for fun, for art’s sake.

That leads me to make a very important New Year’s resolution: take more photos that aren’t of the family. Artsy photos that are challenging, that I learn from, that are fun to work on, that I like. The biggest difficulty is finding the time to do this, alone (i.e. kid-free) , during daylight hours. Otherwise I’ll end up with a lot of dark shots of the night.

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