Me with my father
Yesterday when I was checking a few things on the internet I ran across a great post. The post was on a site that never has anything that is really serious, which made this even more meaningful to me. On Facebook "Missy Mwac" has a page that pokes fun at the state of the photography industry. She posted this, along with a photograph of her father holding her in his arms, yesterday morning and it made me think about what she was saying. This is the post:
"This
picture was taken when I was 5 years old. I knew right where it was in
the photo album. I didn't have to comb through hard-drives or search the
clouds for it. I didn't even have to worry about it "opening."It's a
piece of paper with an image of a man who was my hero, a man I honor
this Father's Day. I have this photograph now, many years later, because
somebody cared enough to print it. – Missy Mwac"
After reading that and seeing the picture it made me think about some of the photographs of me with my father and grand parents that we have in albums. If these were taken today they would never make it off the iPhone or onto anything other than a CD or computer hard drive. I am so thankful that someone took the time to get prints made of these for me, or I would have never seen them and had them to pass along to my children.
With my grandfather fishing
Me wanting to be like my grandfather
Caught one!
One of many in my Army uniform
Happy Fathers Day!