My daughter has fun un-shelving all her books. I have fun photographing the mess.

Anyone who’s visited our house could tell you that I love lights. Lots of them. I love small, colorful lights, none of which would be enough to light up much of anything on their own, but together create a magical warmth. So you can imagine how in awe I am of [...]

I stumbled across this amazing organization that puts cameras into the hands of marginalized kids in communities around the world, from Calcutta to Cairo. Kids with Cameras believes in the power of art to transform lives. New York based photographer Zana Briski created the organization following her work on the documentary Born into Brothels, which [...]

A great parenting site for reviews of baby and toddler stuff, Thingamababy, had a cool post recently about digital photography for toddlers. There’s been a lot of discussion at Shooting the Kids on this topic, as my daughter is quickly growing from a baby into a full-blown kid. OK, she’s only 9 months old, [...]

Amy and I like to head up to the town just north of us and check out their weekly street fair / farmers market.  We always browse through the vegetables and stop by the falafel guy’s stand for some Greek goodness.  And then, heading back to our car, we pass the guy with the miniature [...]

We at Shooting the Kids are always excited to find people out there promoting teaching kids about photography early. After my recent post about setting kids up on Flickr and showing off their photos, I came across a post on the new parent tips and ideas blog, Kiddley, about almost the same thing.
The author let [...]

Popular Photography has a couple of great articles about new products for parents looking to teach their kids about photography. The first is brilliant – a digital camera designed specifically for pre-school age kids and built to handle their rough and tumble lifestyles. See:

Popular Photography Magazine: Fisher Price Develops Kid-Tough Digital Camera

So I ran across something cool from one of my contacts on Flickr. -gadgetgirl- has come up with a great idea to get your child interested in photography from a young age. She’s given her almost 3-year-old daughter a camera and sent her off shooting. But the added joy is that she’s set her adorable [...]