Moments from Uncle

These shots would normally wind up in PotD posts, but I've been lax on that, so I'm putting them together here. I'm a bit annoyed at how my phone pictures turn out, so I'm gonna look to improving that. We'll see how that goes.* I have my fingers crossed.

At any rate, these shots are from a recent visit by Uncle Mason, Pap-Pap, and Sandi. This first shot is Mason with Kiernan in his summer school art class.


This next shot is one I took after dinner that night. We eat outside most nights. As we cleaned up, Kiernan and Mason grabbed the sidewalk chalk got their flower child vibe on.


Finally, out of sequence, I include this shot from the same night. As the rest of us finished up eating, Kiernan snuck his way into his uncle's lap. I texted this picture to Kiernan's mom, who was on a business trip. She loved this picture, but she did exclaim, "Hey! Wait a minute! That should be my lap!"



*I also intend to get some pictures from the other camera up soon. As I've promised. Also I intend to get a really decent camera and learn to take really good pictures. As I've promised. We'll see how this goes.

Picture For This Day

I took this picture at Kiernan's request.


July 25(ish), 2010

Photoshoot of This Day

A little experiment here. We'll see how it goes.

Kiernan has become fairly assertive when it comes to the use of my phone. When we're sending a text to Wendy, he often wants to type it out. At first I was resistant to this, as I felt it would take forever for him to hunt and peck out each message. But then I paid attention to myself while texting and I realized that while I was typing out words quickly, I was spending a lot of time fixing typos. Kiernan took far longer to find the letters, but made far fewer mistakes. So...it was a wash.

Yesterday he wanted to send his mother a picture of his Bionicles, his current obsession. Usually he sets up the tableau and I snap the picture, but this day he wanted to take the picture and send it himself. He did so, and after that he wandered the house shooting other pictures. I wanted to read some news, so I let him.

He returned to me a bit later and handed me my phone with about a hundred more pictures on it.

I've decided to share these pictures. Actually this represents two photoshoots. I've removed the straight up dark pictures of nothingness. Many of these pictures will still be tough to make out. There's a lot of pictures of his Bionicles, and of his drawings of said Bionicles, and of various weird bits of normalness around the house. But I find this charming.

Enjoy. There's a hundred or so pictures in this slideshow, so you may want to come back and look at it from time to time rather than sit through the whole thing right now.

August 6, 2010
Winnetka, CA