On a more fun note...
Wendy
hebrideanblack at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 15 02:46:56 UTC 2003
Iggy wrote:
Ok... I just loaded a pic of my wife and daughter at my wife's
> office, and one of me relaxing while my daughter sleeps on my
belly.
Tonya replied:
> Cool Iggy!! I will find a pic of my hubby and put it up also!!
YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY!! Thanks for sharing!! All the pictures
are wonderful!! I am very happy putting faces with Names!! Thanks
everyone who has been putting up photos!!
Now me (Wendy):
Okay. I love this idea (and thanks for suggesting it in the first
place, Iggy!). And in reading this, I thought - oh yeah, I'll post a
picture of me and my five-year-old son. That will be great. So, I
started looking for a photo to post . . . and started getting very
grumpy about something . . . (mini-rant ahead) ::grin::
I have a digital camera and I use it frequently. I take thousands of
pictures in the course of a year. (No kidding). So, I have tons of
great photos of my son . . . and photos of my husband and son . . .
and photos of fabby places we've been . . . and the odd decent photo
of me taken when I've shoved my camera into someone else's
hands . . . But Connor and me together? Grrrrr. Hardly ever!
And, of the ones there are, so many of those are awful - it's hard
enough getting grownups to pose, but getting a five year old to do
so? Fuhgeddaboutit. So, there are all these pictures of me, and
Connor looking the other way, or making a face. Or a few where he
looks cute, but I look like something from "Night of the Living
Dead." Nope. Not using any of those (especially not the NotLD
ones) ::grin::
Okay. So, I'll take matters into my own hands, I thought. I'll just
take a picture of me and Connor now - using the auto thingy on my
camera. But,of course, he wasn't in the mood for that. Impossible to
take a photo of an unwilling five-year-old. Grrrrr. So, instead I
had to choose from (literally) the *four* half-way decent pictures
that I could find of the two of us taken in the past *year and a
half.* Four pictures in a year and a half? Not good. ::grin::
Anyhow, I decided to go with the most recent of these - it's only
about three months old. It's maybe not the best of the bunch, but at
least it's the way we really look now (instead of the way we looked
early last year. I haven't changed much, but Connor has). Sorry
about the shadows, but this really *is* the best I could do, and I
Photoshoped it a bit, which did help. But still . . . Grrrr. ::grin::
:-)
Wendy
(Who needs to have a talk with her husband about him taking more
pictures) ::grin:: (And who is very much enjoying seeing all these
pictures! Yay!).
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