I know that I have spoken about my youngest son before and his interest in photography, but this one may be tops.  He has always seemed to want to help and participate with me in photography.  He gets up early if we want to shoot a sunrise, or stay up late to go walk around the Washington Monuments and shoot them well into the night.  For the past few months he has been attending a local photo club meeting with me and getting a feel for what other people shoot.  Just last week they gave a Basic Photography talk and he was inthralled.  On the drive home he asked a ton of questions: Tell me more about Iso.  What about shutter speed?  How does that work with aperture?  He was like a kid in a candy store; It was just awesome.

This next week is the monthly contest.  Each month we have a theme of different sorts;  This month it is shadows.  Not an easy one, if I do say so myself.  Well, not much of a surprise, but he wanted to enter.  We spent a lot of time talking about ISO, F stops and Depth of Field.  Trying different things, shooting at different angles with different light sources.  We tried diffrent objects to get shadows, moved them around.  And after all of that (and a lot of shots) he started working with Lightroom and Photoshop.  Again, a lot of questions and experimentation.  Trying to make his shot look just like he wanted.

While I certainly gave him input and guidance, this is all him.  I may have told (and explained) what buttons to push, he did it all.  It was his vision, his hands and his ideas that brought this all together.  I am not sure how he will do next week, but, while I am biased, for a 9 year old, this is not a bad beginning at all!!