A budding photographer

A few months ago, we decided to give our old Kodak digital camera to Beth.  She has always had an interest in photography, and we didn't have any need for our first digital camera anymore, so we thought it would thrill her to call it her own.  And it has... Early on we had to make a "rule" about candid photos...  She is not to take pictures of people without their permission.  Of course, there are exceptions--like this moment she captured one night while I was making supper: 

We were browsing through her pictures today, and some of them are definitely keepers.  :-)

But, as the general rule applies, most of Beth's pictures are of the one subject that can't argue with her--Gretchen.  The poor dog gets chased around the house on a regular basis to be photographed.  (I'm sure she's looking forward to spring so Beth can get outdoors and photograph something else.) 

Here, she's taking a minute to smell the flowers:

  This one, she even smiled for the camera:  

 (Beth snapped this picture just as Gretchen sneezed.  We laughed so hard when we found it today!)  Looks like Gretchen was having a rough day in this one:  

She also managed to capture a video of the last seconds of Team Culver's surprise win to go to the final four:

 The complete chaos in this video almost makes it more priceless as you can hear her get totally swept away in the excitement of the win and completely forget she was filming...   Then, last night after Bible study, she grabbed this video of Matt improvising a song about peanut butter at her request: 

 This crazy guy has more musical talent in his little finger than most of us can hope for in lifetime...  Anyway, I can see that some of Beth's pictures are going to be pretty special, and I'm kind of excited that she shares my interest in photography.  It will be interesting to see how she develops her skills over the summer--when she has something more interesting to photograph than Gretchen.  :-)