Week 33; Patience.
In “The Visual Toolbox” DuChemin talks about the importance of patience. Patience to wait for the light to change, for something interesting to happen, for just the right moment. This assignment was a little aggravating. As anyone who spends 90% of their waking hours being accountable for the actions of a 2 year old can attest, time to sit around and patiently wait is simply a luxury we do not have (as much as we might want it).
I thought about bringing out my camera and patiently waiting for my kiddo to do something amusing. But that seemed less like the real, rewarding patience, DuChemin is talking about and more like the study of timing. So, instead, I turned this one on it’s head and took on patience as a mother instead of a photographer. You see, last week I did something kind of dumb.
My son has developed an obsession with my camera. There’s lots of buttons and a screen on the back. What’s not to love? So whenever I bring out my camera I can get maybe 2 or 3 shots before he sees me and just wants to examine the big black box in my hands. Last week I thought it would be fun to let him press the shutter. So I held the camera, showed him how to look through the viewfinder, then showed him the shutter button, and let him push it and then watch the image pop up on the LCD screen.
Ever since, if he so much as sees me touch my camera he points to his eye and makes a little *chick chick* shutter noise. It some how ties for the most endearing and most aggravating thing possible. So today, I opted to be a little patient with him. When I pulled out my camera and he started to get curious, I handed him my old body. I watched him explore while I shot a few new favorite images.
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