I am the PAPA-razzi!  For those of you who frequent my FACEBOOK page, you know I always travel with my camera.
A long time ago when Charlie (he’s 7 now) and Theresa (5 going on 20) were born, when people gave advice, I listened.

The phrase I seemed to hear most often was “Take Lots of Pictures…I wish I did”…and I listened.   I don’t have a 800.00 camera, with
fangled buttons, multiple lenses, and dozens of knobs and switches.  I tried that route and it seemed every time there was a
photo opportunity, I was rifling through a bag to get the correct lens and by the time I pieced it all together…everyone was gone.

So, I did my research and found you can get a fantastic camera for about $200.00…and most of the high end pictures were
processed with programs like Picasa on the free line,  PhotoshopLE, and my favorite, Adobe Lightroom.  You see, in these programs
I learned to edit the photos…bring up the black, add filtering, etc…and an addiction was born.

People often tell me “You should take pictures as a second income” but, I will never do that…for I have a history of turning things
I love into jobs…and once you’ve done that more than a few times, you learn nothing sucks the fun out of a project like taking
someone’s money and in doing so, surrendering your own vision for someone who essentially wants to be ‘the hands’ of an operation
rather than buying what you make as it is….of course, I am not slighting photographers that make a living taking photographs…
but unless people wanted to buy pictures of my kids, I would stink at doing it as a job! 

So a coupla weeks back I took the kids to the Rec Center….kids like to explore and normally this is a pain…
However, when I chased them down with their pals, there they were amongst the trees like something out
of the old story of Peter Pan in Neverland.  Luckily, I had my camera with me and this is what transpired.

When I got home and went to bed after dinner, movies, and a quick game of flashlight theater (look…a bunny!)….
I loaded my card in to the Imac and WOW…

So thanks for all that advice on “remembering to take pictures”….and I advise any new parent to do the same.
Sure, sometimes it drives my kids nuts but, hey, it’s my house…and in it…there is always a fully charged set of
batteries with a camera ready to go!

–Chuck

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