June 29. National Camera Day. Once upon a time, back in the olden days, which my human can easily remember, people used to take pictures on their cameras and get this - they used to do something called "DEVELOP THE FILM." What the HECK is film?! Film, to me, is the slimy olfactory art that we dogs leave on windows. Apparently in the olden days, people would take pictures on a camera and the film was inside. Once they took a certain number of pictures, they would take the film to a place where the pictures would be printed. Lots of time the pictures didn't even come out. IMAGINE that. All those 563 shots that my humans snaps to get ONE good photo of us dogs would be PRINTED. Back in the day, Frodo and I would have wasted a LOT of film. A LOT.
Today, cameras are digital, so my human can take those 563 shots and not worry. She can delete 560 of them. Whish. They are gone. And she no longer has to lug around her 10 lb camera. She just whips out that crazy iPhone and shoots away. My human estimates that she has taken several thousand photos JUST for my blog. No - several thousand do not appear - but for every good shot you see, at LEAST a dozen others are taken. The reason for the multiple shots? Either because one of us is practicing picnore - the act of ignoring her as she tries in vain to get us to look at the camera, or because one of us is sticking out his tongue...
or because the shot is blurry or the light is bad or...or...or...she just enjoys being the pup-arazzi. Here is a very, VERY small sample of some of my HUMAN'S favorite shots. Clearly the photos in the holiday attire are NOT my faves...
The great thing about photos is the memories they evoke. Some happy. Some sad... But they are a visual reminder of a moment in time....
Take out your camera today and record those moments. You'll be glad you did!
© Linda Wozniak
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