Exhibit A and B

I'm so excited that you are all sending me Movement pictures! They have been really fun to get. I know I said I would wait to post stuff but these two pictures from Friday Play Date's Susan have just got me in stitches. She tells me her two sons are never still, not even for a second. After I saw these, I believe her.

Here's what I'm envisioning. For the first one Susan was like, "OK boys, now try to keep still, I've got to capture this moment of our first day at the community pool...wait..hold it...come on guys...just one sec...OK, got it... i think."

And then right before they self-combusted it was, "Heeey, Mom, he's leaning on me! Stop it, ouch, stop..." "OK little brother, I'm taking you down!" Crash, boom, laugh (pause) cry.

Sue, did you say you had a whole series of these?? Classic I'll bet because these two have me rolling (the boys and the pix). And while I'm on the whole 'series' subject- Rookie Moms has a great photography section on fun and funky stuff to do with pictures. The one that comes to mind is photo activity #58 which encourages you to take a group of pictures in one sitting and frame them as a 1-2-3 sequence. Great idea Moms.  Susan's got a head start.  And if anyone asks you why on earth you framed blurry pictures, tell them it's art and then send them my way.

Comments

[Kelly Bera]

I also have a lot of series pictures! They don't usually turn out blurry, but they are pictures of weird faces and such. I keep these pictures because it does tell the story of what it took to get that one decent shot. My parents wanted pictures of their 5 grandchildren age 2weeks to 3 years. The 20 pictures I took before actually getting a decent shot was a lot more entertaining than the one shot of them all looking at the camera!!

[Susan]

Oh, Tracey, not only were there a whole series of these shots from THAT DAY, there are a SERIES of series like this on my laptop, from pretty much EVERY DAY I have taken pictures. And while I post shots like this to my web site pretty regularly, I'd never really thought about framing them. But now you have me thinking about making photo cards of them, to send to friends and family who don't get to share the craziness.

Because seriously, this is what it's like at my house. All. The. Time.

Thanks for including us!

[Stacy]

I thought I was the only one! My son's still like that but fortunately - or unfortunately depending on how you see things - my daughter is finally old enough (12) to be very serious about remaining still and looking perfect for photo ops.

[Esther Jantzen]

Hi, Tracey,
I met you at Burbank Adult School last week when you stopped to see my book/journal at the little round table in the courtyard. Love your blogs (although I'm not sure how to reply--I'm new at this). Do you just get this, or does everyone who reads your blog read this? (Your card didn't have an email address.)
Anyway, did we talk about "back-end products" for people who publish books and don't make much money from them.? I have an idea for you that I got at another workshop I attended on Saturday. You're welcome to email me directly I'll tell you about it.
Esther -- Way to Go! Family Learning Journal.

[moreena]

Tracey,
Here's another thing you can do with single sitting photos (that aren't all, ahem, photographic gems):

http://mysite.verizon.net/htiede/martins3-06.mov

Some of the photos got a bit pixelated when I compressed them to put them on the web, but in the original they all look great. *And* it only took me about 10 minutes to do this with iMovie (free Mac softward). I'm pretty sure that the Windows version of the free movie software has some sort of feature to do this, as well.

[Whitney]

Thanks for including us, Tracey.

[tracey]

HI Esther. So glad you came by. I'll shoot you an email! Hope this weekend was great. Sorry I missed it.

And everyone, you have to check out the link from Moreena. Hilarious. We can all relate to that in our own way!