Shelly: "Let's get a photo of me and Nico sitting together." Me: "Haha, yeah right, like he is going to sit calmly right now." Nico: "AHHHHHH, Let's play! Come on Shelly I want to wrestle!"
I wanted to take a photograph of Nico's cute little nose, but then noticed he was foaming at the mouth in anticipation of food. Khyber was a drool monster, saliva would pour out of his mouth at the anticipation of food or a ball. Nico just gets a little frothy. It's hard to believe we are at Day 150. My goal is to capture a photo of Nico every day for the rest of his life. This is a hugely ambitious goal that challenges my creativity as a photographer on a daily basis. I have 4,577 total images of little Nico, you all only see the 'best' photo from each day. The images are almost all shot as RAW files with a Nikon Z7, each one is ~60MB, bringing the total file size of all images so far to ~255GB. If I pull this off I will have an incredible number of photos at the end of his life. Backup, storage, and organization are all challenges when handling this many images. There are a lot of images that are out of focus or poorly composed, but those often tell really funny stories of him doing something that I or the camera were just not fast enough to capture. I often wonder if I'm foolish for trying to achieve such an ambitious goal. We take it one day at a time.
Early morning walk in the woods with little Nico. It won't be too long before our morning walks are in the dark and not long after that we may be going for early morning ski outings. We are very lucky to have Dewey Mountain Recreation Center accessible from our backyard.
