We are drawn to one another’s eyes, and this is never more evident than when we look into a child’s bright and shiny eyes. We fall into those eyes. When photographing children [people] it is most often the eyes we seek because the emotion they depict is pure. In close-up portrait photography we are forgiving…
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Try This Tuesday #47: Stage Not Age
Welcome to Try This Tuesday! This week, DS.MAMA from Down Syndrome New Mama is sharing an awesome resource for tracking your baby’s milestones. I think it could be useful for other children with developmental delays as well, and there are also other versions of this resource available. Stage Not Ageby DS.MAMA One of the first…
Photographing Children [with Special Needs] ~ Just Keep Clicking, Clicking
How do you expect to get that perfect shot if you don’t click, click and click some more? Any [honest] professional photographer will tell you that in order to get that one perfect shot, she snaps hundreds of photos. Really. And that on occasion she walks away from a shoot without capturing the image she…
Try This Tuesday #46: G-Tube Meal Containers
This week, Lynn from Pedaling Backwards is sharing one of her many great tips on G-tubes. G-TUBE MEAL CONTAINERSby Lynn After years of trying many containers, I have found these work best: Daily Meal Storage Pyrex 11 cup rectangle (www.pyrex.com). VERY hard to break (haven’t broken one yet unlike every other container type I’ve tried),…
Special Exposure Wednesday.
A small sausage dog definitely helps when you are feeling under the weather… “Chippy” and Ivy share a quiet moment. Got something sweet to share? Join us at Special Exposure Wednesday. We’d love to see your photos! Please remember your comment love at each link you visit. Also blogging at Three Ring Circus…
Photographing Children ~ Seeing Light
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet. ~~Leonardo da Vinci Do you often look at photos and feel the emotion, the energy, the mood? You ask yourself…how do they do that? How…
Try This Tuesday #45: Shoe Shopping
This week, Kristin from The Days of My Life is joining us to share how she handles the difficult task of shoe shopping with her son. SHOE SHOPPINGby Kristin Since my son is autistic, he often doesn’t express himself, for example, when his shoes are too small. And yes, I found this out the hard…
Photographing Children [with Special Needs] ~ Preface
Our column, Photographing Children [with special needs], is suppose to begin May 26. Let’s call this post the preface. Do you remember that as a child playing was your life? In the mind of a child nothing is more important than play and having fun. Remember that. It will serve you well when photographing children…
Try This Tuesday #44: Student Orientation
Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. I know it’s almost summer, but if you’re in the middle of preparing an IEP like I am, you are already thinking about back to school time and how your child will adjust to a new…
SEW: Feeling Better
(This is a quick fill in for Tiff and Ivy, who hopefully will be back next week.) After a week of using his pillow to lay his fevered head on, our Brave Hero is finally feeling better. Mom can finally exhale. And maybe get some sleep. Come and join in the fun at Special Exposure…