hint of a hand

hint of a hand, originally uploaded by jamesburden.

Here’s my thought for today: take your precious camera, and give it to a four year old.

With my heart in my mouth I often “supervise” my four-year-old son using my Canon 40D. He loves it and seems to know his way round the camera better than I do. You would not believe how he has progressed just in the course of a few sessions. Now he intentionally looks through the viewfinder and shoots away.

And here’s the thing. The world is a totally different place when you’re three foot high and can crawl under the table at a restaurant and generally get a perspective on the world that we have long forgotten. This is his latest photo and I think it’s fantastic. The only processing I’ve done is to convert it to black and white. No tweaking with levels, no selective vignetting, no fiddling with the channels.

My son makes photos. I am very proud.