No- this picture* isn't just so I can show off my incredible niece, even though she is… the picture proves the point of today’s blog:
I Am A Terrible Photographer!!!
(I mean, look at it- she's really a cute kid in real life but you couldn't tell, right?)
What do my poor artistic skills have to do with social work, you ask? Oh I’m so glad you asked…I take photos on a regular basis as an investigator. One example: taking a picture of an injury to a child (bruise, cut, sore, rash, burn, etc.); Another example: taking pictures of evidence in a home (drugs, excessive dirt/clutter, other dangerous items that could pose a threat to a child). You get the idea.
So as you- my loyal readers- can image…these photos can be particularly important to prove whether or not abuse/neglect occurred. So what’s a girl to do? I can never get the right angle, or master the correct lighting; I Definitely can’t get my subject to cooperate with the instructions- “turn to the left, be still, stand closer to the light, stop spinning around.” It also doesn’t help when everyone in my office shares one camera that’s about 12 years old that is always either missing batteries or the memory card.
The other day, I told a kid that I had to take his picture because he was “just so handsome.” Because he didn’t know I really wanted to take a picture of the hand prints around his neck, all I could do was stand back and try to ZOOM in as much as possible. Poor guy, he was just smiling so big thinking I was actually taking a picture of his face. The end result = a blurry pic of what looks like a hickey on a 3 year old kid.
FAIL
Moral of the Blog: I am now accepting photography lessons.
*Photo of: Novalee Grace Smith; Photographed by: KMaup
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