Rant #1,492: Picture This

I love photos.

I am not a great photo taker, which puts me smack dab in the right age in photo taking. With today's digital photos, if you don't like a photo, you can simply get rid of it and take another one.

And believe me, I need that feature, because many of my photos aren't very good.

But sometimes, I do get a really good photo, and that is what I am going to talk about now.

During the recent cruise my family and I took, I took probably about 300 photos, many of which I put up on Facebook, and I think I put a few up here, too.

They all captured the moment, and bring back good memories of the trip that I took with my wife and son.

But I also took photos with my wife's phone and iPad, and some of those photos I had forgotten about, including this one.

It shows my wife at her most relaxed, on the beach, I think in the Bahamas, and just having fun doing not much of anything.

My wife put this photo up yesterday, and I had not seen it before.

It is a good photo, but what is that little blotch on the bottom?

It is my finger, naturally.

As I said, I am not the Annie Liebowitz of family photo taking.

My wife put the photo up on Facebook, and I fell in love with the snapshot immediately. I have a good looking wife, both inside and out, and I think this picture showed that.

But that thing on the bottom; how could I get rid of it?

So I went about doing that.

Using a Mac, I used the Grab feature, which allows you to take a .tif image off your screen.

I simply put up the photo on my screen, and using Grab, took the portion of the photo I wanted, and saved it to the desktop.

And Voila!, I had what amounted to a brand new photo.

It is the best I could do, and as you can see, I think it came out pretty well.

I posted it on Facebook, got a good response, and it really made my day.

This is my new favorite photo of my wife, and it just brings me back to our cruise--and we can't wait to plan our new one soon.

And on another note, I am really blessed.

I have been married to this wonderful woman for more than 22 years, and I know God was looking down at me when he paired us together.

I feel I am the luckiest guy on the earth being with her, and seeing this photo yesterday simply lifted up what was shaping up to be a drab day.

With all the ups and downs I have experienced, we should all be as fortunate as I have been.

Cherish your family photos--they are the real treasures that you have, and you cannot put a dollar price on them.

Speak to you again on Monday.