Weekend With Shades - Saturday - June 27

THE HUMOR OF IT
BY DONNA POINTKOUSKI
A Monthly - Weekend With Shades -





When it comes to summer vacations, it helps to maintain a sense of humor. The same can certainly be said for vacation photos. On vacations in the pre-digital camera age, photographers were limited by the amount of money they had for film and developing. This resulted in a certain stinginess when it came to taking photos. If that one photo you took in front of Mt. Fuji was fuzzy, that was your only shot. Which explains why a lot of out-of-focus photos exist in my parents' collection of photos. Or the family went away for an entire summer and you have three photos to show for it.

Today, we don't have that problem, but the opposite...a glorious glut of photographs. It's free, take another! We don't have to print them all! After the vacation photo-taking blitzkrieg ends, you can be left with hundreds of photos from your two weeks away. If you have had to suffer, or rather ENDURE, with either a computer-generated slide-show or a phone-book size photo album of Aunt Suzie's trip to the Blarney Stone, raise your hand! Better yet, if you are the one making your family suffer, raise BOTH hands!