My granddaughters, 8 and 6 have now completed 3 "portraits" of houses, and I thought it would be lovely to do the village church. I invited three other little girls from our village who are 8, 7, and 6. Today it's half-term and there was a brilliant blue sky despite it being only 10 degrees, so we started 'thinking and looking'. We wanted to get "a feel" for the subject so we walked up with viewfinders, and they each took a photo on my i-pad. We won't look at the photos again until the very end, unless I want to draw their attention to something. A viewfinder can be useful to isolate the subject. I'm not sure how useful it is to a six-year old but it introduces the topic of … [Read more...] about Portrait of the Village Church