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Your daughter is a real cutie, James! Good to see the pix
Thanks! I don't often post photos of her even though I have taken a lot in the past few years.
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Thanks! I don't often post photos of her even though I have taken a lot in the past few years.
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- Seattle
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- Andrew
That is the cutest picture I've seen in some time! Made me chuckle. Nicely captured.
M. Valdemar
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Great photos. Love the 16mm Sigma.
I've been out of it too. Lockdown and little time for photography with work. Like Brian said, some vintage lenses have gone insane.
I came down with COVID in mid-December and it went through my whole family. I'm 68. Triple vaxxed Pfizer. Lost taste and smell. Fatigue, brain fog, congestion. It took 3 weeks to feel OK. My 11 year old daughter had bad headache, tested positive, she sneezed 2 days and got better. My 14 year old son had terrible sore throat. Was listless in bed 5 days, on the 6th day he got up, played games on his gaming computer all night and was done with it.
I wistfully look at my huge lens and camera collection and wish I was younger and could haul them all around. Oh, I also shook off the COVID. Scary stuff. I watched my blood oxygen with an oximeter like a hawk. Too many stories of guys like me feeling fine, then all of a sudden their blood Oxygen is down to dangerous numbers and they drop dead. Well, not this time, anyway.
Here's me and my son a few years ago, when I was still taking pictures with my cameras and not my phone.
I've been out of it too. Lockdown and little time for photography with work. Like Brian said, some vintage lenses have gone insane.
I came down with COVID in mid-December and it went through my whole family. I'm 68. Triple vaxxed Pfizer. Lost taste and smell. Fatigue, brain fog, congestion. It took 3 weeks to feel OK. My 11 year old daughter had bad headache, tested positive, she sneezed 2 days and got better. My 14 year old son had terrible sore throat. Was listless in bed 5 days, on the 6th day he got up, played games on his gaming computer all night and was done with it.
I wistfully look at my huge lens and camera collection and wish I was younger and could haul them all around. Oh, I also shook off the COVID. Scary stuff. I watched my blood oxygen with an oximeter like a hawk. Too many stories of guys like me feeling fine, then all of a sudden their blood Oxygen is down to dangerous numbers and they drop dead. Well, not this time, anyway.
Here's me and my son a few years ago, when I was still taking pictures with my cameras and not my phone.
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- Melbourne, Australia
Holy shit man glad to know you're ok.
I'm doubled vaxxed and due for a further booster shot soon. I think I had a very mild case of COVID a few weeks ago. The symptoms seemed very similar to someone else I know who had COVID but for me the worst of it was over in a couple of days. It took me another week or so to fully get back to normal.
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- Melbourne, Australia
Nice photo there. I see you're a late starter with the kids. Me too.
M. Valdemar
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- New York City
I'm very happy I had them. I should have started younger but better late than never!!
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- Melbourne, Australia
It is one of my life's major regrets. I should have started younger too.
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- Seattle
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- Andrew
Yikes, I don't want to hear that. I'm passing toward my upper 30s and we still think of kids as a future possibility. Oh well, that's just going to have to be how it is.
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- Southeast Idaho
- Name
- Dan
I was 33 when I had my first. I have less energy now (almost 50) than I would have if my kid were born when I was 23, but I also have more patience and money than I did then. Some of the trade-offs aren't too bad.
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- Melbourne, Australia
I'll tell you exactly what I regret the most - it's that my daughter is an only child. Throughout the COVID lockdowns there wasn't another child in the house she could play with. She will not have any brothers or sisters because we're too old to safely have more children. And when my wife and I are long gone, our daughter won't have any immediate family to connect with. Our time with her in this world is also greatly reduced.
I recall when my wife was pregnant with her, every doctor we went to see for a checkup or a scan, sat up when they realised how old we were. Every single one of them gave us the standard warning about our age and showed us the age+pregnancy chart re the greatly increased chances of issues with the pregnancy and greatly increased chances of potential health issues in our child. It was kinda scary sitting through all these obligatory warnings every single appointment we had.
Fortunately for us, our daughter was born perfectly healthy and she continues to be so, four years on.
So speaking from our experience, I'd encourage people to have kids earlier rather than later, if possible.
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- Melbourne, Australia
33 is a decent age I think, for both parents.
I also have less energy and am almost 50.
I do have more money now, but instead of having more patience, I've been turning into a grumpy old man as I age in some ways. I've seen many things, I am jaded and cynical. I do have a bit more self-confidence in myself as time goes on but it also means I'm less likely to put up with BS.
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- Melbourne, Australia
Speaking of which, more photos:
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- Melbourne, Australia
And every parents' nightmare when your child gets obssessed with Disney's Frozen and that song that they keep singing from that movie:
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