If you enjoy my writing here, you should know I’m just doing my best James Lileks impression. He’s a newspaper columnist in Minneapolis who, on his personal website, often writes about raising his daughter in such a way that you can’t help but laugh and go, “dyawww,” at the same time. He’s just written a review of a video called, “Photographing Kids,” which you might enjoy. It starts off thusly:

When they’re born, they just look like beets. When they’re very small, they look squished, or like strangely over-inflated gnomes. Everyone always says they’re cute. Half the people are lying, and the other half are women. By the time they look like something you’d take home, let alone photograph, they’re two, and by then you’d best have taken lots of pictures. But how?

The rest is here.