Raising Photographers

One of the great responsibilities of parenting is knowing the reality that kids learn the most from you not from what you say or teach but from what you model.

That probably means a lot of things in this case, like my boys won't grow up to exercise, nor will they wash their cars, but they might whistle fairly often.

When our little engineer started asking his mother how her camera worked last night, he took it up in his hands, spun the zoom back and forth, framed up the photo, and took one of his first shots on this digital SLR. Such was his pride and interest that we realized photography is one of the things we model most consistently in these wild lives of ours, and so it will make perfect sense of these boys grow up to be photographers.

And we proud parents would like to think that if this shot as a 4-year-old is any indication, we could be on to something good...