Category: photography
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smile for your great-great-grandkids
It was just a simple observation overheard at the News-Times: “It looks like this picture for the obituary is a copy of their driver’s license – it has the seal of the state across it. I don’t think I can photoshop it out.” I know, I know. You hate having your picture made. You can’t…
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First day on Facebook
The camera captures the smiles of excitement, nervous grins, tears and uncertainty of students on that first day of school. In the days of only black and white film, new pictures took at least a week to be seen. It took longer if more frames needed to be shot on a roll of film before…
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Not so poor after all
Before I married, someone said, “You’re going to be poor the first 10 years anyway, so go ahead, get married and get started.” This proved to be quite true. We were poor. How poor were we? So poor that we bought the one house in the village that no one wanted because it needed so…