mommy make my picture

so adda asked me to take her picture one day. sure, i take her picture frequently. she neither likes or dislikes it, often she's unaware. never before has she requested it. she put a hat on, climed up on top of jonathans dresser and proceeded to work the camera for several minutes straight, completely undirected. she was posing and posing and laughing. i have no idea where she learned this, i haven't taken her on a shoot with me since she could walk. i guess it's just inside her and it was really beautiful to watch her confidently open herself up in this way. i fired off 50 frames in a couple of minutes, 40 of which were good. i hesitated to post these knowing someone will say "oh how sad, the daughter of a photographer being exploited like that, taught to pose and be so self aware at 3 years old". but i want this blog to be a faithful rendition of our lives and this is the way it happened. i rarely edit any of their photos. i try to just be a mom with a camera here, posting the wild hair and crusty noses, the blown out, and the blurry. but i loved a few of these and took them in to photoshop/lightroom and played with them, i think the last one is my favorite.