Photos

Photography came early.  I reported to work as a cub reporter at the Gadsden Times in 1961.  Robert Moore, chief photographer for the home town newspaper, met me at the door, handed me a 4 X 5 Speed Graphic camera with that huge flash, a sack full of bulbs, an oak tripod, and a bag full of film cartridges (one shot per sheet) and screamed at me to get back to high school for a photo shoot!  The whole rig must have weighed in somewhere around 50 lbs.  It was 12 blocks back to the school. What a show!

Over time, I actually became reasonably quick at swapping film for the next shot (without forgetting to replace the film cover), taking out the spent flash bulb (without getting burned), checking the BLUE DOT on a new one to make sure it was good, installing it in the flash, setting the exposure, checking the focus on the ground glass screen in the back, inserting new film, remove the cover, cocking the shutter, SMILE EVERYONE, trip the shutter – AND do it all over again!

I fast became a proud member of Harry (as in president) Truman’s – “Just one more”  – club!

Today… it’s Digital SLR’s with built in computers that do everything except yell – “Smile” and enough memory to hold 2500 frames of high resolution exposures.  Did I mention video – High Definition no less!!

So now that I have retired from real life – I’m back to where I started – yelling “Smile for the camera” and trying to capture that perfect picture – and it has nothing to do with the camera!!

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DLW