Jack in da box « Pete Carr’s Blog

There is no-one in my family I photograph more than my nephew, Jack. He’s 2 and a half now and you can really see his character growing. He’s a funny one too. You ask him if he’s ok and he says “Yes I am Peter.” He doesn’t call me Uncle Peter or Uncle Pete. He’s very formal and its quite funny. The other week I was in one of those odd random moods. Totally impossible to recreate what was going on in my head but I feel that I produced the best photos of him that I’ve ever taken. I feel that they’re slightly different to what I would normally do. There’s more emotion to them. At a guess its because instead of getting the camera out when he did something cute I followed him around for an hour essentially documenting him. I tried to ignore processing too. A solid black and white conversion was all they needed. I didn’t try and correct for things. I just went with the flow. I really love this set and it reminds me of what I can do when I’m so comfortable photographing someone and when they are completely carefree about the camera. He doesn’t change what he’s doing when I point it at him because he’s so innocent. Its wonderful really.