10 minutes in the life...

Of me. The following is a scenario that played itself out late last week in our house.

- Look up to notice two year old approaching me with a total of over $1000 of camera and lens precariously gripped in one grubby paw.

-Freak momentarily and then decide the best approach is a quiet one.

-gulp

-Say "oh, buddy. Um, can mommy have that back?"

-Hear sweet little voice say "mommy take grady's picture?"

-swell with love and pride. The child who hates the camera wants his picture made!

-gently pry expensive gear out of grubby paw.

-realize that I probably have like .2 seconds to actually take pictures before the novelty wears off.

-decide maybe I should go for one of the two of us, since I don't have many of those.

-scramble to find tripod.

-can't find tripod....ok, will have to get creative.

-look out back and realize the sun is coming from the front of the house.

-grab child and camera and tripod....no, wait, I can't find tripod.

-run upstairs and fling open the shades in the master bedroom, the only room in our house that gets light from the front.

-plop child on bed.

-fiddle with settings on camera to obtain decent exposure.

-look at dresser, decide it will do as a tripod.

-attempt to focus camera while squeezing self as close to dresser as possible.

-realize that child is jumping on the bed and focus is going to be hard to come by unless I literally climb onto the dresser and crouch atop it.

-consider climbing on dresser, but figure a broken dresser would not make husband happy.

-catch two year old who has flung himself, superman style, off the bed.

-press shutter.

-realize that I did not set camera to self timer.

-catch child again.

-set self timer. By this time, all thought of correct focus has gone out the window.

-wonder "where in the heck is the tripod?"

-press shutter.

-hop on bed with child and make the best of it.

-repeat previous two actions about 8 times

-decide this is really quite fun.

-obtain 6 out of focus, incorrectly composed, slightly overexposed, (did I mention out of focus?) images that are absolutely irreplaceable and dear to my heart because they are 6 of about 25 total (really) that I have with my son. Being the photographer means you're not in front of the camera much.

Oh, and I just got an email that the show featuring Kelly and Becca (see yesterday's post) has been delayed by NBC. I will update again when it will air.