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Subject: [Leica] My son taking pictures when he was 4 years old with his first camera
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:24:29 -0400

Thanks Nathan :)

I put together a page with a few of his early photos. I need to dig out the
negs from my archives and scan more. These just happened to be on my
computer:

http://tinyurl.com/mackdidthis


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On 10/8/10 5:59 PM, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Wonderful vignette, Chris!
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 8, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> 
>> When my son, who is now 13 years old, was four years old, I got him his
>> first real camera. He had been shooting with Fuji Quicksnap single use
>> cameras for about a year before that and had gotten quite good. He used so
>> many, it was getting too expensive! Regular 35mm film was much cheaper 
>> than
>> the Quicksnaps, so I got him a Canon Sure Shot Owl for his fourth 
>> birthday.
>> The photos in the link below were taken by me soon after he got the 
>> camera.
>> We were taking pictures of each other, he with his Canon Owl, me with a
>> Hasselblad.
>> 
>> http://tinyurl.com/mack-camera
>> 
>> He shoots with a Nikon D70 now, which he uses to photograph scenes he 
>> builds
>> with Lego bricks. He's experimenting with making stop-motion animations 
>> with
>> the photos. There's a link to his stuff on youtube on the webpage linked
>> above. His stuff is REALLY good for a kid his age, and he taught himself 
>> to
>> do the animation stuff. I have no clue how to do that. I just taught him 
>> to
>> use the manual camera and how to process the RAW files in Photoshop!
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Chris Crawford
>> Fine Art Photography
>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>> 260-486-2581
>> 
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
>> 
>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My latest work!
>> 
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>> Become a fan on Facebook
>> 
>> 
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