The Grand Kids Humor Me. I read a post on Flickr about re-creating a photo from Flickr Commons as part of the thirteenth anniversary of that feature of Flickr. The commons is a collection of photos from public archives that are stored on Flickr and on public display. A list of pictures was suggested and one of them struck me as something in which I could find a personal connection. This picture is of two cousins and was taken in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic. My mother's father was ten years old in 1918 and survived that horrendous event to live into his nineties. Our two grand sons are five and eleven now and are living through these difficult times the same way as most other children this age. I interrupted their usual video game play in order to take the photo below and they played along because they're good kids. So there they are at the beginning of their century, posing close to the way the two Florida boys were in 191...
Every now and then I take a picture that rocks. It doesn't happen often. Quite often I have to overlook a flaw and just be satisfied with what I like about the picture. This is one such shot. It has everything I was looking for anytime I'm taking pictures of family. There's expression, joy, emotion and spontaneity. That is one of the best looks I have ever gotten from any small child. Yet, there is also a serious flaw. The shot is out of focus and grainy (noisy in digital photography speak). With this picture I finally learned my lesson about using a manual focus lens to take pictures of a fast moving small child.
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