We just returned from a tri-annual family reunion.
It was Shar’s mother’s family and there are a bunch of them.
I was the official photographer. It has been a long time since I was a real photographer, but the task felt quite natural. I took my Canon and it’s single prime lens along with a card reader, a MacBook Air and a 1T backup drive. I might have had a Canon (though I preferred Leica’s!) in the old days, but this was a different deal. I took about 600 pictures during the three day time. One of the Cousins was also shooting and I downloaded her card onto my MacBook. I asked someone to take pictures at an event I could not attend and the pictures were emailed to me!
Wow.
Somehow it came back for me to stick my camera in someone’s face and say “I am the photographer, and I am going to take your picture.” Usually by then I had 2 or 3 frames all in the can as we used to say. If someone objected and said: “No you won’t.” I would counter with: “Yes I will” and by then I probably had a good photograph of him/her. I would say that I am sneaky enough to get the picture with or without their cooperation, but that I would get better results if they cooperated.
Shar has a lot of cousins, and I think she knows them all, and I am getting to know them better, and a few of them by name.
It was good. In the past Shar has been one of those people who make it all happen. It was good for her to sit back and see someone else take the responsibility and the heat!
It was good.
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