This is my little 4 year old Anderson James Fontano. We like to call him Andy. He sometimes refers to himself as Andyboytano or Andy Walter Fontano. Jack's middle name is Walter and so Andy believes that should be his as well. Andy way, I have titled the post Discovering Andy for two reasons. First, we went to Discovery Park today and enjoyed some beautiful weather and a nice day there. Second, Andy didn't much care for everything going on at the park as far as him running around and playing. No, Andy wanted to take pictures. He comandeered the camera and got to work.
I had managed to take a few shots prior to him taking over but then it was all his show. He was pretty funny about it and would come to me all excited about different pictures. One in particular he came and said "I took a picture of that old man over there". He was being so sneeky about it and I had to chuckle because the old man he referenced was teenage boy, probably around 14 or 15 years old. Too funny. Anyway, he would not give up the camera and I knew there was going to be some interesting shots later. When I downloaded the pictures there were 113 total. Of those I think I took about a dozen. So we'll say I took 13 and Andy knocked out 100.
I previously posted some of Andy's work at Thanksgiving. I think he is getting better. Not only does he take the pictures but he tells me what to do with them after I download them. You will notice that not too many of these are in color. With the program I view them with you can edit them to be different tones. Andy will not allow me to leave the pictures in color. He want's everything saved in a tone. I am posting all pictures in tones with the exception of two. I think Andy does a pretty good job for a four year old. Discovering Andy and his love for picture taking and editing is a lot of fun.
The first picture was taken by me along with this next picture of Andy. He has several face shots that he took of himself and perhaps I will add one of those. I happened to really like picture above and think he did a pretty good job picking out the effect on it. He did pretty good on that for this next picture as well.
There were a few pictures of the log posts and other parts of the playground. There is a great one that I am not posting that was of Jack and myself at the monkey bars. Right in the middle of the picture is a large log post. I am on one side and Jacks legs are on the other side. Our tops are cut off as well. Ahhh, great picture of that log post. Too bad these other two characters were in the way. There were several pictures of these stumpy logs. I like the way Andy captured his feet in with this one.
Natty and Jack were out running around and having a great time. At one point they were having a little race. Andy happened to catch the start on camera. I think he did a great job capturing the moment.
At one point I looked over at Andy and caught him as he simply put the camera above his head and snapped a shot. He said "I got the sky". Then he turned the camera over and snapped a shot. He said "I got my hair". Here, in order are those shots. Notice that in the sky picture his no look shot happened to catch a jet way up there passing by. I thought that was pretty cool. He had no idea what the picture of his hair was when he saw it. I knew, I was looking for it. He did get a chuckle out of it when he knew what it was.
These next two pics I liked also. The first, not sure if he was going for this look originally or if it just happened to be a lucky shot. Here he got our shadows sitting together. It was one of those surprise shots when I downloaded them. The other pic is also of me. I think Andy took a great pic here of an unsuspecting father. There were a number of pics of me but usually I look like a real dork because I start hunching down low so he can fit me in. Anyway, not knowing he was snapping the shot helped me appear normal. Good work Andyboy. Well done.
The next two pictures are of Jack and Natty. I took these but again, Jack chose the colors or lack thereof. Jack was all over this jeep for a while. In this picture he is manning the guns on top of the jeep and steering with his foot. What a talent. Natty is walking the plank or getting ready to anyway. We all seemed to have fun today and that was wonderful.
Okay, here is one of those pics he took of himself. He really wanted to look like a smurf - loved it.
It is neat watching your children discover their talents.
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