I’m kinda combining my themes today. I’ve been trying to take a B&W photo for this week’s MCP challenge, and at the same time, I’ve been fascinated by a few Australian photographers who are taking daily photos of their kids this month, but not posed photos. That’s important. I ask my kids too often to do something specific… and although it looks nice… it’s not always all that realistic about the way that they actually interact and what they do.

So I’m going to be trying to take a few more photos like that too… more photojournalistic style… and I’m going to include them in my boys 52 weeks project, and also have a series that I’m going to tag “Just Life”.

The photo I took also worked quite well in my mind for the MCP challenge… it’s been rainy here for days and the skies have been very gloomy and the kids are tired of TV… so they were watching Transformers on DVD when I took this… on a gray day!

I spotted these kids playing soccer at Library Gardens in the Johannesburg CBD this afternoon, and  had to go downstairs and take some photos of them playing.  It was quite funny, before I got there they were just kicking around, but after I asked them and settled on the side with my camera… they got organised and soon had quite a game going using their school bags as goals.

You can see in some of the photos, that the garden was quite busy with some people sleeping on the grass right where they were playing.  It was quite a miserable day today, and the light was rather dull… but their energy was awesome!

Just a little fun with Connor… this weekend is going to be a photography biggie with 3 clients so I took it easy today

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And it was back to reality today…

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Bradley was keen for a few photos until he realised he wasn’t going to do anything exciting… the grass was too wet for that.  Instead all I got was a whole pile of grumpy faces.  It suited me in the end, because I love the results actually considering it was quite dark already and I got to play with some shadows

These were taken with my Canon 70-200mm f2.8, which is my lens of choice for February.

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.