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September 23, 2007

Is it real art or just Mom art?

Saturday's Dog Day event found my 10 year old daughter with camera in hand. She took a lot of great pictures, like this one of DSC01816[1].JPG
our good friends Dixie and Cider.
She also took a lot of less traditional photos that I dismissed at first, but after viewing them for a while I think they just may have merit. Art even maybe.

What do you all think? Are they cool, or am I just being a Mom?

Now be objective and let yourself imagine that they were shot by a famous photographer...not a 10 year old with her Mom's automatic digital camera.

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Posted by Nancy Freedman-Smith at 05:37 PM

Comments

Being the Doggie Mommie of Whiskey the Irish Wolfhound shown above-I think it is a cool photo! :)

Posted by Lisa R-G
September 23, 2007 07:12 PM

Nancy, I am a photographer by profession and I always love what kids shoot! They have a very different perspective on the world than we do and a lot of shots can really benefit from the "low point of view" Wish we could have been there on Saturday but had agility class in Edgecomb at 3.
matt

Posted by Matt
September 23, 2007 07:56 PM

I think that shot featuring (Dixie or Cider's) eye and cocked ear is bears a strong resemblance to many of the shots by Amanda Jones (prominently advertised throughout Bark magazine). Could H be the next Annie Liebowitz for the pet set in the making???

Nancy says:
My big head!!! I went to Amanda's web site and her photo's do look like a bit like some of my kids...
http://www.amandajones.com/go.php?page=portfolio&cid=1&pn=1

Posted by Donna
September 23, 2007 08:26 PM

I thought the pics were great!
:-)

Posted by Wendy Almeida
September 24, 2007 05:37 AM