I am shamelessly recycling this photograph. Because I love it. Because it is perfect for this prompt. Because I'm pathetically pregnant at the moment. And because I'm having a photo/camera crisis so taking new photos is painful right now.
Our house is dark. Shaded by huge, old trees. The light comes in at odd angles and wierd times of day. But, every morning - apart from the grey ones - it streams through the window onto my bed. And right around the same time, this bundle of opinionated, cuddly, seriously awesome boy comes in. To snuggle. Or tell me it's "time to go downstairs!" or explain that he is driving into the Mariana trench with his lego truck.
I love both of these wake-up rituals. Although one is definitely more peaceful than the other.
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Can I also just talk about my camera crisis? I used to have a real camera. It used film. It was a really good SLR. I had lenses. I took some good photos. Then everything moved to digital. I kept the body but gave the lenses to my sister-in-law who was studying photography. My husband bought a "semi-manual" camera that adjusts all the settings you try to set and drives me insane. But I used it. Then I got an iphone and for a good long time, that is the only thing I have used. It's held up pretty well. I have about 2/3 years of pretty decent iphone photos. Some of which I'm actually proud of.
But then last October Kate let me borrow a camera of hers to take photos for a few days while we were in North Carolina. She was a kind and generous teacher as well as a kind and generous friend and after a few days I remembered why I love taking photographs. And now...well...now I'm still mildly obsessed. A real big-girl camera. I remembered what it was like to be able to play with light and depth. To take the photos I WANTED to take. Not just snap what was there and hope for the best.
I will say that 3 years of mostly iphone-otography has given me some pretty decent shot-framing skills (because that is about the only thing you have control of) but I'm done. I want a real camera. It's going to happen. But with the whole (unpaid) maternity leave thing coming up (remind me why I live here again?) it's going to be a while.
Until then...I'm going to clean the lense on my phone with a q-tip and dream of this little baby and a good fixed 50mm lens.
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Playing along - Week 6 of Bella's 52 Photos project