A Digital Camera

I love photography! What a medium-the PRESENT becomes the PAST, and you can view your photos for many years. My wife and I have been doing more genealogy, and we can view photos of our distant ancestors that we have obtained from different sources. What excitement that can generate. Once I sent my long lost cousin in Michigan a photo of myself, and she said that "you look like the men in the family for sure." How interesting that is as throughout my life, people always said I looked like my Dad. Even at Dad's funeral, one of the pall bearers sidled up to me and said, " Bob, now that you have gained some weight, you sure look like your Dad!" Wow, huh, WHO has gained weight?? Me, NO WAY! But what a  nice thing to say I looked like Dad all those years. I love it. He truly was a handsome and neat looking fellow. Knowing my Grandfather George, I could look at his face and see glints of my Dad's caricature. I am very fortunate to have known both of them.

Gosh, have I gotten off the track! Last night, we happened to be out with some of our extended family at a restaurant. I had my iPhone along with the cam built in and took some photos of the group. I always believe when it comes to photography, take it, take it, take it!! How many times I have waited and the hummingbird or hawk flew away!!! Sad, but true. Digital photography has played havoc with the film industry. I mean the kind of film you might put in your old "point and shoot" cam. It is practically gone. The clarity of the photos is far superior to the old film cameras. 

When I take photos I love to just take them. My Wife and Daughters will testify to the speed of my finger on the shutter when they are in the room and I take the photos! But I have those photos held tight in history to view again and again. How great is that! I have virtually thousands of photos of flowers. Wow! that is a lot of flowers.

When I traveled in Europe as a young man(doesn't everyone these days do that?) Well, they sure didn't then. I had to borrow the money for the trip from a bank. The President of the Bank was the one I talked to in our small town with 2 banks, and he approved the modest loan, and his comment to me was, "You are doing something I wish I had done many years ago." Loved the trip! And no digital camera-my Dad loaned me his old(today it is) Argus C3-35mm cam, which of course took film. I took lots of film rolls with me and mailed them home in special mailers for development. Worked great! See photo of the camera below:

But, I love the convenience of digital. I will never use anything else. It is the only way to go for me. Oh, I have one of my Dad's first Kodak Reflex Brownie cameras. Yes, film! It is neat to study and look at and tell stories about, but not to use for me. Dad loved photography too and was an excellent photographer.

And can you imagine that a phone can now have a camera built in?? Take a look at a couple of my past blogs here. You will see from whence I come, and I will tell you it is a long time ago. That was the time of the non-dial phone where you spoke to a live operator. Wow, most kids would say today, "You are kidding us-a live operator, no way."

My Grandsons do photography with their iPods. And their Mom is also into digital photography! They do well too. How great is that!! Taking after the Grandfather! I love it!!

Gotta go take a digital photo of the wife. She is in the kitchen cutting up the stew meat for her delicious home-made stew. How interesting is that!!!!!????  8-)))))

Enjoy the day!