She walks in beauty, like the night…
by Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies…
This is a family
Let’s count them and see,
How many there are,
And who they can be.
This is the mother
Who loves everyone.
And this is the father
Who is lots of fun…
Little girl, little girl,
Where have you been?
I’ve been to see grandmother
Over the green.
What did she give you?
Milk in a can.
What did you say for it?
Thank you, Grandam.
“Love”
by Anna Akhmatova
As a snake, coiling up in a knot,
At the very heart she’s conjuring.
Or the whole day she’s like a tiny dove
On the window white tenderly cooing.
Or she sparkles in a hoar-frost bright,
And in dozing – like a gillyflower…
Taking photos of children is one of the most complicated types of photography.
Kids are cheerful and spontaneous but at the same time they have a keen sense of insincerity. But if you`ve managed to establish a contact with kids and win their credibility, they would cheerfully play, pose, ‘live in the snapshot’ without paying much attention to the camera and the photographer and sometimes without noticing them at all…