urprises abound when you're a parent so it wasn't that weird to come
across a collection of Archer's self-portraits when I was transferring
photos from my camera to my iphoto (the following is a small selection
of what I found):
Archer's
pretty used to being in front of the camera being that I have thousands
of photos of him. In fact I would doubt that a day has gone by without
at least one photo snapped in his direction. I can't help it. Digital
photography has made it impossible not to take photos of our
kids. Whereas ten years ago, it was far too expensive to take a hundred
photos in one sitting to get that "perfect shot" these days it's all
free, baby. Which brings to me to another point: digital photography
and whether or not anybody really prints all the photos they say they
will. Do you? Because I know I don't
When Archer was
born I bought ten rolls of TMAX and TriMax film black and white film so
I could capture his first few months in dramatic black and white. To
this day, those are the only photos I have of Archer in frames around
the house. The rest of them are stored on my desktop and removable
hard-drive and of course, flickr.
Which I'm thrilled with, to be honest (so easy to share with
out-of-town family and friends) except when I get in one of those
"let's bring it back to the old-school" moods when I start getting
pissed off at myself and launch into one of my many similarly themed
multiple-personality arguments:
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