Daniel's vision, from behind a lens

Daniel started using our camera while we were still in China.  This is one of many pictures of clouds that he took out of the plane window between Jinan and Guangzhou.

We quickly discovered that he had definite opinions about camera angles and how people should pose, many of them quite creative.

He had had some informal training by watching a mentor figure at his orphanage who is proficient in a number of arts, including photography.  But much of the success of Daniel's photographs is due to his own ability to see pleasing compositions and striking angles of light, and to capture them in a frame.

For Daniel's birthday this year, we paid half the cost of a new camera.  It is a Sony "megazoom," which is one step down from a DSLR, but it leaves my old point-and-shoot in the dust.  It has a 30x optical zoom, and both the color and detail in the pictures are amazing!

As an added bonus, Daniel can use the zoom and LCD screen to examine things that his eyes can't see unaided, like a distant bird or the details of a Daddy-long-legs spider we caught while camping.

So he has been getting a lot of mileage out of his camera this summer!  He has taken some gorgeous portraits, which I won't post on here.  But I feel no such compunction about his nature photography.

So without further ado, enjoy Daniel's vision!  All the pictures in this post, except for the first, have been taken by Daniel since June 20 using his new camera.  Most are self-explanatory, but I've added notes to a couple.

Clouds through ice

close-up of a lamp