Creative Eyes

Looking for the perfect shot

She’s got a good eye that daughter of mine.  She is creative, enthusiastic and amazingly supportive.  I have used her photos when creating my journals and this only feeds her creativity and that urges to create more.  She insists, because some of the journals which boast her photos have sold, that I now must tag my items saying “Photo by Tessa, age 9 1/2″.  She’s smart.  Already knowing not to let others take credit for her work which quite often takes years to learn and yet she knows this at age 9.

Tessa and I went on a photo shoot down at Rocky Point Park.  First stop though was a garbage can that I have been dying to have a photo of for months now and never got the opportunity.  Of course, walking from the car to the garbage can Tessa had already taken 10 pictures.  She seems to see the potential in everything and as a title for all of them.  The crack on the sidewalk was “Step on a crack and break your mother’s back”.  I know, used before but she thought she was rather clever!

After I had clicked away the funky garbage can we hit Black Sheep Wool to see if we could get her some needle felting supplies.  We found the supplies and as I turned around there was Tessa snapping pictures of the colorful yarns and wools.  It was so inviting and I was fighting the urge but I was waiting for the right moment to ask if it would be ok to snap some photos in their lovely shop.  The owner said no problem and then I pimped myself right out and dropped my business card on the desk telling her what I make.  She responded, “Well if you used a photo that you’ve taken from our shop we’d happily post it on our website.”  Perfect!

Tessa and I were on our way.  As with most sunny days in the Lower Mainland during the winter months, people make their way outside to get their dose of Vitamin D as we know the sun’s light won’t last long and the rain is usually a day away.  Quite a few people were out walking their dogs, few were running, kids occupied the playground and there was Tessa and I, walking off the beaten path, squatting down in places most wouldn’t think to take a picture.  I watched as my daughter looked for things to capture using her lens and while she was searching for shots I was looking at people watching her.  Some smirked, some smiled and some, you just knew were looking at her taking a picture of the arrow on the ground thinking “She’s gonna clog someone’s computer full of shit pictures”.  Little do they know, unlike most people who aim to capture beauty and memories of the kids playing we were looking for the not so obvious shot.  We had a mission, together searching for the shot to create with, captions to play with and a journal to put up on Etsy.  Here are a few of the pictures she took.

Available in my Etsy shop

Now here’s a new sketch book listed in my Etsy shop!