Say "CHEESE!"

  I shared the last couple of days
with a buddy of mine who has been
my friend since grade school!
 It's pretty rare to have a
friendship that lasts that long!
 One of the things we share in
common is an interest in
photography.
  There was a time when I even
processed the film that came
out of my 1950 era Ansco Ready
Flash Camera.
  'Film' for those of you under
30,was the material you had to
load into cameras to take
pictures before electronic
cameras came along.
  Like a 'fast draw gunfighter' from
the old west digital cameras let you to
take pictures as fast as you
can press the button.
  My friend is the
'Billy The Kid' of picture taking!
  He aims at nearly
everything and, like the
'Mounties', he always gets
his man. Or woman. Or sunset.
Or tree. Or.....well...in this
case YOU get the picture.
  My wife, his wife, and I
had an informal bet as we
drove the mile or so from
our motel to the main highway.
  The challenge was to guess
how many times he would stop
to take a picture before we
reached our downtown
destination.
  I thought he'd stop once
to get a shot of a beautiful
old building on the hill.
  He did. Then he stopped
to get the barn near the
building. Then he spotted
a nice landscape shot.
 And the 'clicks' never
stopped coming!
 (By the way, the makers of
your digital camera added
that clicking sound because
people were used to hearing it
when taking pictures! It
isn't a mechanical noise
made by the camera!)
 As my friend pulled over every
here and there to capture another
image we still faced a 14
mile ride into town!
  I mean this guy even takes
pictures of pictures!
  I don't remember the total
number  he shot on that ride.
  I downloaded his digital chip
into my computer and counted
373 pictures from he moment we
met for our two day stay until
he drove away with one hand
on the wheel and the other
on his camera!
  I don't take still shots
anymore. But I do shoot a lot
of home video.
  Sometimes I even get video
of my buddy taking pictures!
  Who knows? Maybe we can use
it to get him into the
Guinness Book of World Records!
 Watch the birdie! And may all your
NEWS be good!