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| How People See Me |
My family likes to make fun of me because of my incessant picture taking. It doesn't matter what we are doing, I'm always shooting photos or videos of it. To me, life is about creating memories, sharing laughs, crying together, watching babies smile, seeing them take their first steps, graduations, silly moments with our girlfriends and precious days with family and friends. At the end of my days, I want to have a record of touching people in a way that has made their lives sweeter and fuller and bulging with love! One of the ways I do that is by taking pictures that they can treasure forever.
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| Waiting for baby! |
That's why I take pictures, and lots of them. There are moments and facial expressions and joys that I never want to forget. My computer monitor plays thousands of photos in a continuous slideshow at my house. When family and friends come over, they are mesmerized by them. They sit and stare and laugh or cry at memories they had forgotten about that appear right there on the screen.
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| At the Lake With My Love |
I also love to make photo books of special occasions and trips and beautiful days and give them as gifts. If we don't have memories of the sweetness of life in photos and written word then we tend to forget how intense the sweetness was. I love the silly times, the romantic times, the dress up times, the camping times, the ordinary days. A video of my grand baby taking a bath can bring a hundred smiles.
Now, I know there was a day when people didn't have cameras or cell phones or video recorders, and they still had lots of happy memories. But why not make the memories a lasting record of your life? Why not have a way for your children's children to see how much living there was to your life?
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| Celebration With Precious Friends |
So, I don't care if people laugh at me for always having my camera out or if they don't think a picture of them came out perfectly. I do it for the life, the memory and the joy of the moment! You don't need to have an expensive camera to take pictures. You can use your cell phone to record precious moments. Just do it! Make memories and make a record of them, so you never forget those moments!
From His Lap,
