Let me see!

Believe it or not, I took about 10 shots before I got this photo. This is because of the "let me see!" pheonomenea. What happens, see, is that kids nowadays ask for their picture taken, pose for a split second, and jump up before you can press the shutter button, yelling "let me see!" The result is a series of blurry images with mouths half open an eyes half closed. Such is the plight of the digital photographer... Instant gratification. Friend or foe?

This is going to make me sound old...

In MY day, we had to actually WAIT to see our pictures! Remember that? Collecting rolls of FILM to take to the pharmacy or Costco to be DEVELOPED? Then WAITING a week or so to pick them up? Even then, you never knew what you were going to get. Sometimes you had a roll of 36 gems, others the envelope was entirely full of dark, blurry images, mouths half open, eyes half closed... not unlike the ones I captured of my kids this morning. The only difference now is that I have the option of the delete button.

-L

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