October 16, 2005 - Sunday
I've been meaning to pull this old second generation, 1.4 megapixel, Olympus out for a while for Harry to use. Then I heard him talking about someone's digital camera and figured I'd better just do it. It will be a fun thing for him to start learning about. Naturally, it was a big hit. Well, it was a big hit except that these old digital cameras eat up batteries in no time. For a kid who's excited about taking pictures and just keeps snapping pictures of chairs, floors, tables, walls, maybe a face or part of a face, and on and on, that battery length might be a little as 15-20 minutes. We went through a couple of sets of new batteries just this afternoon. I suppose I should have saved "Harry's First Picture" before I let me delete the whole first batch to make room for more pictures, but it was not anything particularly noteworthy (an indiscernible angle of a table I believe). Still, he's getting into it.

This facial expression on the right may look like an unhappy face, like something is wrong with the camera, but it isn't. It's a face that means Harry is "figuring," lifting his eye ever so slightly away from something that's a little too close to see. Maybe it's more universal than this, but I've seen this face all my life on my father, my brother, and my grandfather, and I've felt myself doing it for years, too.

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