Here we are halfway through our game with photo #3 that needs a caption. Not grandkids this time although I had some of them I was considering and may use next time. But this one is of me a few years ago, back in the film and camera days and before you could whip out a phone to take a few trillion pictures.
Back then taking pictures was something of an adventure. You pointed and pushed the button to take the picture. Then you had to take the film out of the camera and head to the nearest photo developing placc. That usually meant you had to wait a few days or a week while the film was sent off to be developed. I remember always being excited when I picked up some developed pictures and couldn’t wait to see if I had taken any good ones.
You had no idea if you were going to like the pictures or groan when you saw them. They might be fuzzy if your hand was unsteady. You might have aimed poorly and cut off somebody’s head in a picture or missed the scene you wanted to capture. And you couldn’t take a zillion like you can these days. At least not without buying a ton of film. The film I bought usually had room for me to take 24 pictures. Sometimes I’d get the big roll of 36 when I thought I’d have plenty of picture worthy sights.
Thank goodness for digital cameras where, if I want to, I can take a dozen shots of the same butterfly or flower and pick the one I like best. I could have never done that when buying film. I would have thought I was wasting film. Now I have no worries at all of chasing after butterflies for a perfect picture or snapping shots of other unique sights that I would have never thought about wasting film on back when. Now I can take pictures of dogs and cows and grandkids and spiderwebs. Well, you name it, and I might have taken a picture of it when I was out walking with Frankie and Marley. Of course I always took pictures of dogs even back when I got my first camera and had to save up money to buy film. 🙂
I can carry a few thousand photos around in my pocket instead of adding to my stack of photo albums. I do need to fill up a few more of those with pictures I took before things went digital. Now I wonder if I should print some of the pictures out.
Of course, I can never find the picture I want because I have so many. That didn’t happen when I was buying and loading film into my point and shoot camera. I had the pictures right in front of my nose and it didn’t take long to look through a couple of dozen of pictures.
I obviously didn’t take the one up top. No easy selfies with those cameras, and even if there were, I had enough of my mom’s and dad’s frugal feelings to not “waste” much money on pictures of my up close smiles. My husband must have somehow gotten the camera out of my hands. I generally like to be behind the shutter. Not in front of it. But on trips I had to give my husband equal camera time. Well, I doubt equal but some occasional time.
You all did a great job with the captions everyone suggested for Sunday’s picture. I knew “Hide anfd Seek” would be a popular guess. I liked the ones about little brother not knowing the Hide and Seek rules and little brother leaning how to play the game.
I did think of one nobody else mentioned. Here it is. “I can’t believe Grandma put us in time-out.” Maybe nobody thought of that one because they couldn’t imagine such a thing happening. Lol. Grandmas don’t do that. Well, at least not often.
So what caption do you suggest for the picture this time?
Each time you suggest a caption on a new post, you get another entry in the book giveaway. Three winners will get their choice of one of my books and a grab bag book by a different author. Deadline to enter is midnight EST on August 2, 2022. But whether you end up being one of the winners or not, I hope you’re having fun playing the game.
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For a caption, how about “Enjoying God’s Beautiful Handiwork!”
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Jolynn – I’d be saying that about my legs hurting these days for sure. Made me feel good seeing how easy I was sitting back then. That’s been a few years ago. And I don’t like getting too close to the edge when I’m on a high place, for sure.
Lucy – Free and on top of the world is a great place to be.
Una – And being on top of that world with Jesus is the best.
Karen – I love the cheerleading ideas. Give me a K for Kentucky. Don’t remember if I needed a hand. I’m sure I would these days. I doubt I could get my husband to make that climb these days.
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Susan, love your caption. It was a high peak of the past.
Pamela, I loved the “Go Cats.” I did have on my favorite UK sweatshirt. And they will be playing in the Bahamas in a couple of weeks. Too bad I won’t be there to take a picture.
Donna Jean – High on a Mountain of Love – Sounds like that should be a song. Could be it already is. Just one I don’t know. 🙂
Dana – Love “Mountain Mama.” That is making a song start up in my head.
Marji – I don’t remember it being windy, but I probably did feel safer sitting. I have another picture of a hike we took in WV where we did get up on top of a rocky spot and I did feel much safer sitting down. That was the hike where I had to jump between two rocks. Not my happiest moment, but I made it.
Give me a K! Give me a hand!
I’m on top of the world with Jesus!
Free and on top of the world…that’s me.
That looks like it could be in my back yard Stone Mountain in NC.
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So many beautiful places in our country, Ola. I’ve seen Stone Mountain in NC but didn’t do any climbing up to the top of it. We were somewhere in New York State. We’d been to Niagara Falls and were coming back through NY toward home. Neither of us can remember exactly where we were, but for sure it’s a beautiful place with a view forever.
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Lee, that rock does look hard and nowadays I’d probably do a little more struggling to get up. LOL.
Kim, we were having a grand time. We just came up on this rock park and enjoyed the huge rocks. We were somewhere in New York state.
Emily, I did make it up to the top, but as best I remember it wasn’t a really hard climb. But oh, what a view.
Robin, love your caption of mountain beauty. It was a beautiful place.
Paula, might have been a ways to carry a picnic basket, but it does look like a place one could have a romantic picnic. Maybe where the guy proposes to the girl and then lives happily ever after – of course.
Suzanne, we are small in comparison to the vastness of the Lord’s creation. It’s so good to get out into places like this to let us see the majesty of the Lord’s world and appreciate the beauty.
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Lisa B – I did sort of feel I was on top of the world. I’m not exactly sure where this is. I know it’s in New York state, but I don’t remember the name of the place. I tried to find it on the internet. They have several rock city parks but none of them looked exactly right. So the best I can say is New York state somewhere.
Lisa H. – I can hear you singing.
Lavon – You’re joining your voice in there with Lisa singing that song. And now I’ve got the song stuck in my head too. 🙂
Shari – The picture does look as if I’ve made quite a climb, but as best I can remember, I didn’t have a big climb to this one. I have another picture of a different hike in WV where I did have to make a strenuous climb and I did feel like I needed to hold onto the rocks to stay safe. I’ll have to hunt that picture up and share it. I started to use it instead of this one for the photo caption game.
Birdie – It does look like I needed to take a break, but as I told Shari, this one wasn’t that hard a climb. I don’t think. It’s been a while since I got to the top of this rock so I may be forgetting the breath stealing hike up to the top.
Will you hurry up and take the picture?! My legs are Hurting me sitting like this, you also know I’m Afraid of Heights!!
solo cheerleading retreat
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Took me a minute, bn100, but then I laughed out loud. Love it.