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Click! Daddy’s little helper

Saturday, April 29, 2006 | 7:26 a.m.

She may not be the youngest published photographer in the world, but Luna Morris has become the youngest photographer at the Sun.

Armed with a point and shoot camera and a Sun press badge, Luna, 6, accompanied me on Take Your Child to Work Day. By day's end, she had taken a photo that landed on the front page of the next day's Sun.

So on Friday, I turned the tables. I went to Luna's school, Explore Knowledge Learning Academy, to interview the budding journalist.

"That was the best part, taking pictures of all those tire wheels," Luna recalled. When we returned to the office to edit the photos and write captions , she learned that the job wasn't always exciting. "I got bored working in the office. Well, until you turned the TV on."

Even so, her success apparently has affected her career choice. "I used to want to be a tour guide, then I changed my mind and now I want to be a photographer," she said. "My dad's job is cool because he gets to take pictures for the newspaper. It's really awesome."

I tend to agree.

- By Sam Morris

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