The Little Imp rolled out of bed Friday morning, walked into my bedroom, and amidst rubbing her eyes and admonishing me for my lack of housekeeping skills (looking at the piles of clothing all over her mumma and daddy's bedroom!) and told me she wanted to do something "especially fun today!"
So I asked her what she had in mind and she told me that she wanted to "take some pitchers!"
Now, having just had a massive catastrophe along the lines of the sinking of the Titanic when it comes to one of my new lenses I just purchased, (I dropped it on the hard concrete...a brand new Sigma 25-85 lens...kerplop! I cried!) I wasn't about to let her take the reigns of my new camera or even my older DSLR. I told her she could use the point and shoot and have a go with it. It's a new Canon PnS... not bad for a 3 year old shutterbug to cut her teeth on!
The first thing she wanted to do was take a picture of herself. Any good photographer has a cheesy self-portrait somewhere and the Little Imp might as well get hers out of the way. With a little help from me, she managed to pop one off!
Look at that! She even has the Rule of Thirds down, already!
Next on the Little Imp's list of things she wanted to shoot was our little coco Goddness, Godiva. I told her that she probably wouldn't be able to get the little diva to hold still, as I hadn't had any luck lately but to give it her best shot!
Throughout most of the day and into the evening she could be seen creeping around the house, shooting whatever caught her eye. Most of the time, the object of her attention was the cats.
I haven't done anything to these photos except try and sharpen them a tiny bit and attempt to correct the exposure issues...the rest is all purely the photographic genius that is the Little Imp! Not bad for 3 years old!
Out of all of the pics she took, this one is my favourite! Here's my beautiful boy, Geronimo. I was afraid it wasn't going to come out because Imp was messing with the zoom, but lo and behold, it's a great shot!
She caught some cute moments between our tiny coco Goddess, Godiva, and Geronimo...
The Little Imp decided to show me up and actually got two very good shots of Godiva holding still. Incredible!
This next one I did actually crop...my fat foot was all too visible in the side of the shot. Believe me, you'd thank me for getting rid of it!
Suffice it to say, I'm clearly proud of my budding shutterbug, if not a tad envious. I guess this means I better step-up my game if I'm going to make something of my own burgeoning love of photography before the Little Imp surpasses me and publishes her own calender of cat photos by the time she's 5!
