A Lesson In Photography

OK I know this is a tad late because it would have been useful at Thanksgiving. But Christmas is right around the corner so please bear this in mind.

Most of us spend the Holidays with our families, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Years Eve, even Easter. On one, two or more of these days you will find yourself about to sit down to the family feast with your relatives and inlaws and the rest of the people you avoid seeing except for on these special ocassions.

And what is it that happens just before you begin to eat? No I don’t mean the “blessing” I mean the idiot with the camera who says;

“Wait! Let me get a picture!”

Ah yes, while the food is getting colder by the moment This Leonardo DaVinci thiks the moment should be immortalized on film so that everyone can remember what it looked like.

Well I don’t know about y’all but the ones I have to attend look pretty much the same as they did the year before, and the year before that….and so on.

They take the photos (It’s never just one) and they pass around the camera….

“Ohhhh, look at grampy, doesn’t he look nice?”

Well I don’t know about y’alls but the sumbitch looked hungry to me.

Now I know it’s probably the only time that everyone there is together and nobody is arguing with anyone else over what college football team is superior or whatever but you simply MUST resist the temptation.

Take your photos before the meal, while people are still rather happy and not bloated from eating too much, believe me you may thinks it’s tradition but the only thing the people around that table are traditionally doing is fighting the urge to take your camera and but it into a place where you won’t retrieve it without some degree of discomfort.

Remember there has only been ONE GOOD PICTURE of people eating in the entire history of  mankind.

And you ain’t Leonardo DaVinci.