Something Old, Something New

It's no secret that I love photography. I always tell my husband, Billy, that I feel like I see things through a viewfinder. I'm always composing shots in my head, and can't remember the last time I went a day without taking a picture. I love to document every goofy thing my kids do, and it's such a part of our lives that they even remind me to take a picture if I don't do it first.

So recently when I went away for a few days with my girlfriends, Billy surprised me with these antique cameras when I got home. He had them all cleaned up and lining the mantel. He had gotten these from his grandfather as a kid, and had them sitting around his room in his parents house for a long time. Little did he know that those cameras would earn him serious brownie points with his future wife one day.

I decided to let the hooligans model them for me so I could take some pictures of them. And no kiddos or cameras were harmed in the process. (There are actually 8 cameras (one is a video camera)...but we only took pictures of a couple of them. I'll have to take pictures of the others later once we get them set up/displayed.) The kiddos loved getting to play "mommy" for a little bit...and kept asking me where "the button" is. They already know how to take shots with my iPhone, guess they need to be educated on how to use a real shutter button. ;)

I'm so excited about these. None of them are actually useable that I know of (but I will do a little research to be sure...how fun would it be if I realize one or two of them are usable? Christmas in July people.), but when it comes to cameras, the more the merrier in my opinion.

Check out more shots at This or That and Show Off.