Budding Photographer

As many of you know I love photography. I'm still a beginner and have a lot to learn, but I love capturing moments in time on film (digitally now). My main interest is nature photography, but having Ava I have sifted my focus on her. I love capturing her growth, personality, and everyday life with the camera. It has been so much fun to see her change over the past two years and preserve those memories through my pictures.

Even though, my hobby is photography this post really is not about me. I just wanted to give some background to the real point of this post. Since Ava's birth I have taken thousands of pictures. Most of them of her, but also a lot of other subjects with Ava watching. She has grown-up watching me (and Rich too) take pictures and have fun using our cameras. Recently, she has taken an interest in taking pictures too. While at the Sacramento Temple we gave Ava our old canon point & shoot camera to use.

At first Rich tried to help Ava use the camera. Since she is a stubborn, strong-willed 2 1/2 year old she did not want help. Ava told Rich, "do it myself". She was determined, so Rich strapped the camera tight to her wrist, showed her what to do, and let her go. It was fun to watch her try and figure everything out. Of course she didn't know exactly what to do so many of her pictures were blurry or of the ground.

Even though, most of her pictures would not win any awards they are priceless to me. Just seeing her excited about something I love made me happy. I look forward to seeing if Ava will continue to show an interest in photography and what images she will capture next.

Rich trying to help Ava.

Ava trying to get a picture of a bumblebee among the flowers.So happy to be taking pictures all by herself.For some reason Ava loved to take pictures of our car's headlights.

AVA'S FIRST PICTURES
This is one of my favorites. It is a picture of mommy & daddy in front of the temple. If you look closely you can see our feet. Unfortunately the temple did not make it in.

This is another picture of mommy & daddy. This time she held the camera up and did a great job. We were so impressed. Maybe in the future Rich and I will actually have some pictures of us together.

I don't like this one, but it is one of Rich's favorites.

There actually is a bumblebee in this picture. She has been fascinated with bumblebees recently.This is one of several pictures of our car's headlights. We finally had to stop her, so we could go. I think she would of taken a 100 pictures of the headlights if we let her.