Tue 18 May 2010
Photography by a Two Year Old
Posted by Lisa Mitchell under Child Development , My Baby , My Parenting Experiences , Parenting , Toddlers and Up3 Comments
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.
LOL!
We have some photos and videos much like those. Ava has pretty much appropriated the Flip Video camera. I have dozens of little videos she’s made. Yes, I save every one of them. I’m a dork like that.
I wish we lived closer. Our girls seem SO much alike, I think they’d have a ball together.
That is something!
Smart like her Mom and dad..I love Maya.
Hey! i Stumbled across your blog from Heather Spohr’s blog. let me start by saying I am a 21 year old, with no kids of my own, but i live at home and i have two young sisters. one will be 4 in June and the other just turned 2. they are both fascinated by cameras! for christmas, i bought the (3) year old a “Kid Camera”. Its an awesome digital camera designed especially for little ones. strong enough to endure drop after drop, and simple to use with only four buttons. (the on/off button, the delete button, and two arrows to scroll through the pictures) the 2 year old loves to use it too. it holds up to 500 pictures that u can transfer to the PC. the screen is small, but the pictures come out decent. both of them LOVE it. not sure if maybe you want to get one for your little girl and try it out, she will probally love it since it is the “real thing!”
http://www.buy.com/prod/fisher-price-kid-tough-digital-camera-with-hearts-pink/q/loc/20269/212545552.html