As it states in my profile, I am a childcare provider and spend almost 10 hours - five days a week with little ones running around like chickens with their heads cut off. I love my job but lets face it, working with kids is exhausting and emotionally draining. I find time in our outdoor adventures to escape behind the lense once and awhile and look at them in a totally new perspective. Kids are so funny when they see you raise that camera up they instantly jump to a pose and smile as big as their little cheeks can go. How rare it is to just capture a moment, but sometimes its possible. An even greater moment is when I hand the camera off to one of the kids and tell them to go wild take pictures of whatever you want. Not only am I showing them how enjoyable capturing an image is so maybe someday they might want to delve in to photography as well, but they also get to feel important in taking control of a piece of equipment that can save the images they want to see again... here are some images captured by the kiddos I work with... It is clear the intentions are to capture cute moments, take a picture of their friends, and sometimes to just snap a picture (as you can see with the shot of the floor). Kids love the responsability and enjoy seeing these pictures even though they cut out half of the face, miss the person while they were looking, or heck even just snap it while pointing it at the floor. So, why does it seem so important to adults to make everything so... "perfect"? Why do we have to have a smiling face in our lense, or the perfect angle of an animal or plant, or the perfect lighting behind or on an object... why do we care so much when we can take a note from the kids and realize its the little things in life that count! A small package delivers a big punch daily when I work with these kids, and it inspires me to look at all my photographs that I take... for something interesting in them, not just the perfect pose, smile, or captured moment.
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