Father and Son, Shower photo.

To me the picture reflects the desperate need of society to constantly capture everything in a lens just to have proof and praise.

Candie wrote: »

It's a lovely photo of the loving care of a dad looking after his sick baby. Anyone who sees anything wrong with it is fundamentally flawed.

Deleted User wrote: »

It's actually perverse and slightly seedy to read anything perverse or seedy into it. It's almost depressing and it says far more about the eye of the beholder.

Exactly, f*cking idiots who see anything abusive in it are the f*cked up ones..

What's the problem? We should be celebrating dads like that. He's what a dad should be. He's putting his sick son over being puked and pooped on and vomitted on. I can't have been the only child that loved being comforted when I was sick? Everyone knows when you're sick mammy and daddy's bed is where you go to feel better. I still remember my own dad getting up with me when I'd be sick during the night, calmly saying "you're alright you're alright" over and over. He was puked on plenty. It comes with the territory of being Worlds Best Dad.

I would feel sorry for anyone who had an issue with that pic. How could that be anything but normal? If you think it's abnormal, I feel bad you didn't have a dad like that in your life. Dads (not fathers) are so important. Every kid deserves a dad like that. It's why I get so annoyed when I see a relationship break down and a mother deliberately keeping their child away from the child's daddy because they're hurt or angry. It's okay not to like your ex, but it's not ok to make a child feel like they need to hate them too.

Of course there'll be fathers out there who don't deserve to be called daddy, but also plenty of children who are missing out because of bitter feuds and being used as pawns in punishing the other parent.

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Doesn't it remind you of your own childhood? Feeling safe? I don't remember being held in the shower being sick but I remember getting sick in my dads face, as he slept in my single bed with me about 5 years old. I remember getting chickenpox and being very clingy hanging onto him so much the entire time I was unwell, and him ending up seriously unwell after because he never had chickenpox and ended up getting shingles from me.

I see that pic and there's nothing gross or pervy or shameful or unnatural. It's just a man being a daddy. And surely most of us can relate to that, either as being a dad or having a dad?

Read the article in the OP and thought it was a beautiful photo and couldn't really understand why anyone would take issue with it. Noticed that it said the woman was a photographer and felt that would be reason enough to explain away why she would be of a mind to grab her camera at such a time just because she saw an opportunity to take a good shot. Before I posted saying as much though, I wanted to check to see if she had ever posted similar photos before now and if perhaps there was a chance that she had orchestrated the whole 'went viral' thing to some degree.

So I Google'd 'Heather Whitten'.

Well, I am sorry I did, as the first thing Google found was a link to her blog, which I clicked on, and immediately, oh I don't know, maybe around a couple of dozen or so high resolution photos loaded many of which showed her kids stark naked, including many shots which showed their genitalia. The husband and her seem to walk around in the nip with their kids all day doing feck all else but take photos. The chap has also taken one or two shots of himself holding the same child naked. There is another shower shot from the past couple of days too. So yeah, maybe best to not click on her blog.

I'm not saying there is anything untoward going on there by the way, or that she, or he, are taking the photos for nefarious purposes. Nudity is not inherently sexual after all, but.. it ain't half weird to have so many pictures of your kids naked on the interwebs, imo.

Anyway, does anyone know how best to burn a harddrive?

No problem with the event happening but if I was in that situation I would point out now isn't really the time for a photo, never mind uploading it to Facebook. I don't really get why a person would share that with everyone.

Esel wrote: »

No, from your report, it's totally fricking weird! It brings a whole new dimension to the issue.

Well, maybe I overstated what I said tbf to her. She's a photographer at the end of the day and this all just seems to be an area she is drawn to. She also does birthing photography too. I did initially think the photo was beautiful after all, and still do, and also many of the photos I referenced, but yeah, quite a lot of those on the opening page of her blog, and page 2 (which was the first page I was brought to for some reason) contain lots of photos of her kids naked playing around the house, in the bath, in the garden etc and some show genitalia. Now, is that a bad thing? I wouldn't say so usually, nudity is not inherently sexual like I said before, but, anyone who sees these kids will know who they are and it wouldn't that difficult to find out where they live. Bit different to have photography books full of naked anonymous kids, quite another to have them online when everyone knows who they are, imo anyway.

The shower photo was from over a year and a half ago it seems and this all happened after she gave an interview and spoke about it in that interview and so then reposted so that people would know what she was referring to. Seems just before all this she was banned from Instagram for posting the nude shots of the kids up there. Deliberately courting controversy perhaps? Perhaps but sure here's that interview if anyone wants to cut and paste the url and read it but be warned, there are a few photos included which, although milder than many of of those on her blog, still may not be something you wish to view all the same.

lightinspired.net/interview-with-heather-halford-whitten/