The number one wish on my son’s long list to Santa was a camera. As a first reaction I thought  that a digital camera to a 6 year old was a little extravagant  and it definitely risked to be a short lived present  too so I was tempted to give him my first digital camera, which I no longer use. After serious consideration I discarded that option for various reasons. Firstly it would spoil the Christmas magic, because he would no doubt recognize it as my old camera and therefore reveal the truth about Father Christmas. Just as importantly, when I say it was my first digital camera, I really mean it. In fact that camera is older than my son, it has a resolution of only 3 pixels and the display is very small. On top of which it is battery operated, which is never a plus sign. So we got him a basic digital camera with a large display and standard settings. The camera turned out to be a big hit. On Christmas day alone he took 250 photos. Back in the days of my childhood taking photos was a grown up thing, no wasting of films on repetition shots for kids to practice their photography skills.

The photos of this week’s photo Friday are my son’s shots of the nativity from the tiny village in Sardinia where my parents live. The figurines are all wearing the typical Sardinian costumes people used to wear in the past and they represent typical moments from everyday life. The figurines are all handmade by volunteers who live in the village.

This post is part of Photo Friday hosted by Debbie at Delicious Baby, pop over to her site for more travel photos.