Jill Smokler, AKA Scary Mommy
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Lily has a little Fisher Price camera, given to her a few years ago by her Uncle (best gift ever.) It just eats batteries, though, so we alternate between phases of it being used constantly and it being buried in her closet, dead and useless. Every few months, Lily uncovers it and I replace the batteries. Once again it’s her favorite toy and she can’t put it down, documenting life behind the little pink lens. Her images always crack me up and give me some interesting insight into my girl. She’s been a busy little bee over the last few days of fresh batteries, and I think, is showing enormous promise.
So… without further ado, I present you with a selection of the photographs, from the artist herself.
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My daughter loves hers too. In fact, I just posted a picture of her using it yesterday. They don’t hold up all that well over the long-term unfortunately. My son’s no longer keeps the pictures in memory – he takes them and they vanish – and my daughter’s camera takes them but then won’t upload them to the computer. Luckily she doesn’t care and just keeps deleting them to take more.
Are you getting her the nikon slr for the holidays?
The self portraits are awesome. Kids today have the coolest things to play with. As I recall my sister’s first camera was a Brownine camera. And you had to wait 3 to 4 weeks for the pics to come back. And you had to walk 5 miles in the snow to get them.
I love how kids view the world. :)
Those are great. Get the rechargeable batteries! Soo worth it!
THe self-portraits look a lot like what my husband takes!
Cute…she’s pretty good! I love your Andy Warhol’s of the kids. And your rug:)
got to get them started young on something that they love! her pictures are great!
LOL..they get excited to use the camera! I think she did great! :)
I second Coconut Cake’s suggestion: My kiddo has the same camera (in pink as well) and after going through approximately ninety million batteries in approximately two weeks after she received it (’twas a Best Gift Ever from her grandmother a few Christmases ago), we got rechargeables. SO much better, and you know, you can pretend you’re doing it because you’re green and want to save the environment, when really the only green you care about honestly is the green in your wallet not going for more batteries…..
I also love the Warholesque kid pictures – very cool!
ooo she did a good job! At least she took pictures of stuff … My daughter takes off with my digital camera .. I get it back with 241 pictures of the cat in various kitty like poses. No kidding. Seriously, 241 pictures. Cat. All cat.
My Grandosn just got one and he too loves it and it is so interesting to see what catches their eye!
We have the same camera!! I am seriously considering getting Ros a different one.. you’re right. that thing eats batteries. And the pics aren’t always that clear on ours! Your daughter’s look much better! what gives?
tell her she is a great photographer! You should introduce her to scrapbooking! My girl loves it.
Oh how much fun. I need to get my girls a camera. They love stealing mine!
I actually really love the perspective of your wedding photo. The girl’s got talent!
Our little one has a camera as well. It’s fun to see the world through their eyes.
She did great!!!
aww.. i love the photos!
I’ve been thinking about getting my 3 yo nephew a kid camera for christmas.. he loves his sesame street ‘jack in the box’ type camera and LOVES cheesing for pictures.. I think he might like one!
Those pop art pictures of the kids are TOO CUTE!
Lily is very talented!!! My girls always want to take my picture when I’m in my pj’s and wearing no makeup….at least she shot you looking gorgeous in the wedding photo! Thanks for sharing.
You actually stole my next blog post subject!! I went to grab my camera two days ago and literally found about 72 pics taken by my 6 year old – including several close up poses of my ass, wedgie and all. Boy, can I relate!!
I had an electronic flash that ate through batteries faster than I could take pictures. I switched to rechargeable batteries and the flash worked perfectly, lasted longer and I did not have to throw out the batteries when they were dead and mess up the environment. The only trick is that you have to keep the batteries charged. What size batteries does the camera take? I may have some I can give to Lily with a charger.
Love, Papa.
She’s a natural!!
I bought my kiddo a Crayola digital camera for Christmas. He loves to take pictures and thought it would be so much cheaper than a cheapy camera with actual film. Heh. I hope he likes it!
dang those are some good shots! the last one is very artistic. she is a cutie!
we have that same camera – how is yours taking pictures that are actually good? My son’s sucks!
Hello, I am new. I found you over at Cheaper then Therapy.
You have quite the budding photographer! Do you like how they take pictures of pictures? lol…
Awesome! My daughter loves to use my old digital to snap odd shots. I love the view from their eyes! You have a talented girl!
She has great potential for sure.
We give Bram disposables and he loves them. Hilarious to see what they capture.
Love the Blair Witch style shots of herself LOL!
It is always kind of cool to see how kids view things.
Love it. Especially “Rug with Toys”. Very post-modern. When is her first gallery show?
I am such a believer in giving kids a camera to shoot with… they have such an amazing perspective and view of the world.
These are great! And of course someone beat me to the Andy Warhol comparison! What a creative girl!
ahhh Lily’s world- sweet- especially love the chest thump!
We got our son a cheap video camera when he was six- it molded his life- of course he makes films now, sometimes, when he is not slacking hard! AND we have some interesting kid films from times gone by that are sometimes so endearing they make you weep and sometimes so painful cringing, throwing up,and sheer terror are understatements.
those are awesome! what a little artist.
Great Photos! I think it is cool to give kids such a nice way to be creative. That is the best gift ever.
I love looking at pictures my kids take because it’s a little insite in to how they see the world.
I like that she's already photographing food & drink! A girl after my own heart! Yeah! There's money in that type of job.
Aw… those are too cute! You have one talented photographer! =)
She’s GOOD.
I love the pouty pic.
The kid has got talent!
did I get her that? or did uncle matt?
They look great! Can it use rechargeable batteries? Let me tell you – I have rechargeable in my camera and it’s a LIFE SAVER!
I really like how you contrasted fave toy with buried in the closet! We have toy cycles like that too.
Did you see that showtime/HBO/Cinemax/whatever documentary on about Marla? She was a 4 yr old painter. Just abstract. Made 10′s of THOUSANDS on some of her originals. Lilly is so much more talented. I smell a documentary!!!!!!
The self-portraits are fabulous! ;)
Those are fantastic pictures! My daughter is getting her own camera for Christmas. Since mine is broken and I am waiting on Santa,I’ve toyed with the idea of trying hers out!
So awesome… the best is that she is offering them for sale and w/an autograph.
What a lovely spirit she has. ;)
i’m dying laughing
because we just got B one for xmas
I guess I’d better get her a gazillion batteries to go with it?
she’s following in lily’s footsteps!
should I be happy about that????
Quite the photog isn’t she?!
Oh, those are awesome. Whenever my kids get the camera in their hands, they take pictures of me that somehow make me look like I have a huge honker.
Oh, wait. I DO have a huge honker.
Stupid camera.
XO
Anna
PS – Thanks for becoming a follower and adding me to your ‘roll! Righteous!
Those photos are very impressive indeed! Thanks for the gift idea. I needed something fab for my niece – this will be perfect! I’ll just be sure to buy the costco battery pack to go with it!
We have that camera. Hayden just loves it. It TOTALLY is a battery suck but he loves taking picture. It like living with the a camera man 24/7
I think she has a real knack for photography!
Those are really pretty good. My kids are always stealing my camera, I need to get them their own to mess around with
She is so expressive : ) and dramatic. Lovely! I know you love drama… Who doesn’t?
Is her camera digital? I think Kaish wants one for Christmas. I don’t like battery eater toys though. They stress me out a little!
she did a great job! mine usually take a million pictures of the floor :)