An afternoon at the playground
Yesterday, the girls were at various activities with Lauren, so it was just me and james for the afternoon. It was a bit rainy but we caught a break and hit a playground in a town nearby.
I had my x100 with me. The sky was very grey and it messed with my exposures and white balance a bit. I’m still learning a lot about this new camera. It’s a lot of fun but I missed a few shots today.
(ISO 800, f/4.5, 1/250sec)
James found a few old trucks and we worked on our “construction site”
(ISO 400, f/3.6, 1/200sec)
Taking a leap.
Writing down your life story
We spent Thursday and Friday in New York City.
Yesterday, we arrived at my parents in Long Island. Last night after the kids went to bed, my dad told us some amazing things about his childhood that I had never heard before.
My brother and I have learned a lot about my parents lives over the years but I know there are gaps missing from the stories. And there are certainly photos missing. The old photos we have aren’t tagged or organized at all and we don’t have any videos naturally.
I told my parents that they should write down their life story. Start at the beginning. They have led fascinating lives. One little tidbit: They both came from different countries to the United States in the 60’s. My mom is from Korea. My dad is from Iran. They met after medical school during their residency in New York. My mom was supposed to be arranged but she met my dad. There is so much more to their story….
These days many of us are sharing our lives on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, blogs and flickr. It’s an attempt to write down and share our life story. From the seemingly mundane to the other end of the spectrum.
I hope my kids can one day check out my shared life to get another window into my life story.
And hopefully they will do the same for the next generation.
Decided to make my kids photos private by default
I’ve been publicly sharing photos online since 1999 when my first daughter was born.
I was so proud that I wanted the world to know when she first smiled, sat up, first started to crawl, talk, walk, ride a bike, etc. Same was true for my next two kids.
Ten years later and I have over 6k photos on Flickr. The vast majority of them are of my kids or family members. And with a couple of rare exceptions, the default setting is public mode.
But something changed lately for me. Maybe it was one extra person I didn’t know that decided to favorite my kid on Flickr. Or maybe I’m just getting more sensative. I really don’t know.
So this evening I changed the privacy settings on the kids photos on Flickr to private and only viewable to my family and close friends.
Some of my close friends won’t be able to see photos of my kids and that’s not the intention. So if you are a close friend and want access then please email me and I’ll send you a flickr invite to our online photos.
I’ll still occasionally post a public photo of the kids.
But, for now, the default mode for the kids is private.
My boy James is 3 years old today. We had a little party for him yesterday. At his request it was a pirate party.
Arrr, matey ! (via bsabet)
