My Son's First Photo Adventure

I'm a stay at home dad and my son is now just shy of 4 years old, sometimes I can't go out and take pictures because he's a wild little thing. Earlier last year I saw +Thomas Russ Arnestad 's post on Google + titled Father (33) vs. Son (5) | Street Photography in Malaga, Spain and it was inspiring to see a father share his passion with his son, and the son creating images along side his dad.

At the time, it was a bit premature for me to do something similar, he just wasn't there yet. Over the past few months I taught him how to take pictures on his iPad, and he's silly about doing so, but I noticed him finding it interesting. Taking toys and lining the up together to fit them in the frame.

With this in mind I've been searching around for a camera that would be fitting for a 3 year old going on 4, that wouldn't be a complete waste of money, problem is they put awful 2 mp cameras together for kids and charge $40-80, which is far too overpriced for the cheap plastic crap they put together. After searching around and coming up with nothing, I remembered an old point and shoot we had and it figured, why not.. if it breaks no big loss, it was collecting dust.

Throw a couple dinosaur stickers on the front to make it more fun and the "Dino Cam" was born.

He instantly loved it, and started snapping random photos all over the house (gotta watch out for him) and said he wanted to take it with him when running errands with me, after getting out of the store he asked me to say cheese.. so of course I took a photo of him taking a photo of me.

When we got home, he hadn't been satisfied and asked to take a picture of the ocean, so we went for a short photo walk, and since I've been thinking about making time lapses with my back up phone when I go out to make images I decided to give an app a try.

Photo Walk Time Lapse (sorry Blogger keeps removing the embedded video)

What a blast I had with him, I hope he continues to show interest in going out with me and taking photos.

Here are a few unedited photos he took.

I'm so very thankful to have such a great little excited son to spend moments like these with.  This little outing made me remember a walk I had with him in November of 2011, when he was only 1 1/2 years old.

11-2011

01-2014

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