Oh, Brother

At Christmas time my 7 year old wanted a camera. I was just about to buy him a wonderfully inexpensive film camera with zoom when suddenly I realized - you have to buy film and pay for pics with that thing! Wow, I forgot about old-style photography. I decided that I was not paying all that for a 1% return of decent photos. So, he got a new Playstation game instead.

Fastforward to spring. My dad called me while he was on vacation and said that at the local Best Buy they were clearencing some cheepo digial cameras for 25 bucks, and did I want one for the boy. You're kidding - bring one home. So, in his Easter basket was his first digital camera. I finally got around to buying him an actual memory card a few weeks ago so his pics weren't automatically deleted when the batteries run down, (I know I'm a bad mom, what can I say). Anyway, yesterday I finally downloaded all 112 pics he's taken, and there in the bunch was this beauty. This is his younger brother. I figure this is his viewpoint of him most of the time. Maybe we have a budding photographer on our hands - capturing real life in all its glory.