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A New Interest For Lukey

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Lukey was excited to use one of my cameras... This past weekend, 3 year old Lukey tried his hand at shooting some photos while we were at Shelburne Farms.   He was having a little bit of trouble holding the camera upright even though he was using my smallest, lightest camera but he managed to capture a few good shots. I think his hands are still slightly too small for even my smallest camera. It was good to get those little fingers working though! I set the camera to a fully automatic setting and then asked him if he wanted to shoot a few photos as I offered him the camera. He quickly figured out how to review photos after shooting... then how to get back to shooting... he did very well. That being said, he was a bit fussy about the wriststrap staying on his wrist. Every time I turned around to see how he was doing, the wriststrap was just dangling in mid-air. It's amazing he never dropped the camera! One purpose of handing him one of my cameras was to give him some pract