phone photos

Last Christmas, 

while eagerly awaiting the arrival of the little guy, 

we invested in a rather swanky camera 

so that we could take hundreds of pictures of his every movement. 

Well you can forget hundreds, 

we’ve taken thousands. 

But I have to say that some of my favourite photos of him haven’t been taken with the fancy camera. 

Personally I love that we are never very far away from our cameras these days. 

I think we get so many more fantastic photos as a result. 

Since starting One Beautiful Year

I have easily taken ten times more photos than I would normally,

and I normally take a lot.

But I have to admit that I tend to lug my DSLR around with me everywhere.

The camera on my phone is rubbish.

In fact my phone is pretty rubbish to be honest

and I've become a bit addicted to the better quality you get with a DSLR

so much so that I tend to put that in the changing bag when we go out

rather than the far more practical compact camera.

But camera phones have been there when a proper camera hasn't

and they have captured moments which would have been otherwise lost.

On my phone I snapped his excited flailing arms the very first time he went swimming; 

it was blurry but really caught his anticipation. 

We caught him standing up for the first time with the iPad camera; 

not just in photo but in video too, 

we have the whole proud experience in all it’s glory.

But my favourite phone photo of him

also happens to be the very first photo of him ever.

He was still brand new and was drinking his parents in for the very first time. 

This photo introduced my son to his grandparents

mere moments after he was born,

in a picture text message

along with the line

"Somebody can't wait to meet you!"

Phone photos seem to capture my real son, 

in the real moment. 

And I think that these candid photos are the ones he will look back on and like the best.