Starting them young
My wife unleashed our son Winston with his new camera on an unsuspecting world. Not before Winston had tested the shockproof design by dropping his new toy on the floor. It survived. Bravo Olympus! A few moments after arriving home the snaps were processed in Apple’s estimable iPhoto and the best is below.
Photograph by Winston Hofler. Olympus 770SW, ISO 80, 1/320, f/3.5
Well, let’s face it, the boy has what it takes. The modernist composition, the action aspect, the sparse use of color …. it’s all there.
I was congratulating the wife on this excellent first outing when she pointed out that Winnie had banged off no fewer than 270 exposures! Whoa! Winston is five and has already taken more pictures than I did in my first ten years with a camera. I started late – at 7 years of age.
It was intriguing to see how he instantly took to the LCD screen for composition – something both my wife and I find pretty much unusable. There’s the video generation for you.
Anyway, our boy will be spared the insane tedium of film/processing/scratches and has gone ‘straight to digital’. Lucky man. I can’t think his first book is too far off.
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