I was talking with someone yesterday about what it’s like to be the photographer in the family. And when there are little kids involved, it turns every family event into a photo shoot. He was lamenting the fact that his fiance sometimes feels left out when he goes crawling on his knees to get cool shots of the kids, and she’s left standing there.

I, on the other hand, come home and realize that I’ve gotten photos of everyone at the family event and yet there’s not a single photo of me. So it’s the proverbial, “If a tree falls in the woods…” dilemma. Was I really there?

This, by the way, is one of my three nephews, all of whom are brothers. I love the color and the look on his face in the second photo.

I took this photo of my niece Mary over the weekend and it’s one of my favorite new photos. But perhaps what I love about it is that she watched me taking pictures and then went and found her own camera and told me very confidently that she is a photographer. They say “imitation is the greatest flattery” and I was definitely flattered.

It also cracks me up because I imagine her reminiscing about how her own career was started when she was given her first digital camera for Christmas one year…

I’m here in Raleigh spending Easter weekend with my family. Easter’s a lot more fun with kids! My 3 nieces and 3 nephews who spent the whole afternoon hunting Easter eggs and looking for the “golden egg”, which contained not only candy, but money!

For those of you who have seen the photos I have up at MUSC or have read the earlier blog post about “Things from My Grandmother’s Kitchen”, I thought you might appreciate seeing what the actual kitchen itself looks like!

I’ve gotten such a big response from the photos of the individual items I photographed from her house and kitchen, that I think I’m going to have to go back and do some more and make a book just of the objects she collected over the course of her life.