Maya‘s artistic tendencies run deep.  Give the girl an artistic outlet of any kind and she is all over it.  Painting, coloring, gardening, play doh, you name it, she loves it.  It seems that we have found a new favorite creative past time that the little miss enjoys, photography.

From a very young age Maya has loved the camera, and not in the “please take my picture” kind of way, in the “let me have that thing so I can do my thing” kind of way.  She has been coming after my camera from the moment she learned how to crawl.  For a while the only pictures we could ever get of her were ones of her crawling towards the camera  One of her Christmas gifts this year was a toy camera.  I was convinced this would do the trick for a while, boy was I wrong.  She knew the difference right away.  And though she loves her little toy camera and plays with it often, she much prefers the real thing.

This past weekend she demonstrated her mad photo taking skills.  I had just taken a little video of her and gave her the camera when I was done.  I didn’t realize I had left it on until she started snapping away.  What we got was a rather artsy set of about 20 photos.

I present to you, Photography by a Two Year Old -

Not bad if I do say so myself  I may have a budding little photographer on my hands.  I’m guessing it’s about time we traded in that toy camera for a real one.