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Posted by Tom on December 10, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Over the past few days I’ve received a handful of emails from people asking me to send them some photos I’ve taken over the past year or so. These people were mainly looking for photos of family, but I was kind of shocked to find out that I had very few that I could send over. Unless it was an event where photos were expected to be taken (birthdays, parties, birthday parties), I didn’t have many.

It didn’t really surprise me after thinking about it for a second, since I’ve found that whenever the camera comes out during times when people aren’t done up, folks instinctively slink away from my viewfinder or ask me to put the camera away. But the whole point of me trying to take some photos at these times is so that I can capture the memories of when we were “just hanging out” or “just playing cards” or just being ourselves.

I love taking photos of animals, and I love taking photos of landscapes, and I really like taking photos of performances, but when I really enjoy is taking photos of friends and family so that when one of them emails me looking for a picture from that night where we sat around doing nothing except spending awesome time with each other, I can say sure, no sweat, here you go. Because lets face it, those are often the times that you want to remember more (or at least, I do).

This trip home I’m going to make an effort to try to get more shots of my friends and family. And really, what better time to spend awesome times with friends and family than at Christmas?

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