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Shooting Children

Posted on March 6, 2015October 16, 2022 by David Barker

No I’m not advocating violence against young people. And, to be honest, I usually don’t shoot children with a camera, either. But every now and again, a scene cries out to my camera and says: shoot me, shoot me. Like this one of the little girl who just had to stick her foot in a hole. You can see the mother’s hand reaching out. You can almost hear her telling the girl to keep up.

And then there’s this one, which I place firmly in my WTF category. The child’s cute enough, but all the interest lies with the person passing on the sidewalk. What’s he got strapped to his leg? I followed him for a while, to see if I could figure it out, but gave up. I haven’t got a friggin clue. It looks like a fuzzy strip of cloth tied with a pink ribbon.

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