Where did you get that picture of me?

This photo is of my wife’s uncles. While the license plate is 1920, I don’t know if the trucks are. Help.

Mark, I’m with you.

When we got married friends of ours also decided to not have children because of “where all of this is going.” Sixty six years later with four loving children, six loving grandchildren, and four loving great grandchildren, we are overjoyed that we didn’t see “where all of this was going.” By the way, just where did it all go?

Robert Redford is one who has had nothing done. He and I are the same age, same birthday. I should look as good.

Sometimes I think you believe what you write. You really can’t mean this.

It really was a great dance routine.

My, my Festus. Aren’t we judgmental? Yes, it is only your opinion, but an opinion not based on knowing anything about me. In fact, I started taking and developing and printing photos when I was ten years old. My darkroom was my mother’s fruit cellar. I also had a darkroom for much of my adult life. For about 20 years now I have been shooting film and digital and I never leave home without a camera. I use my gear a lot—just last weekend on Tampa Bay, yesterday downtown St. Petersburg with both my DSLR and a film camera. I have countless prints, negatives and digital files. So, it does matter what I take. Almost all responders were kind, generous and tried to be helpful. None were judgmental like you. So, if you have any useful advice, I would be glad to hear from you.

Well, you convinced me. I just bought a RX100. I have time to try it before we leave in May. If it doesn’t seem to be enough I will consider the RX10. Thank you.

In May we are off to Italy, Greece and the Holy Land. Then in August, Alaska. I have been stressing over what camera and lenses to take. Then I remembered. About 30 years ago we went to France, Germany, Switzerland, and England and all I had with me was my Olympus XA2 and came back with hundreds of wonderful photos and slides. And then I remembered a very recent trip to Yosemite loaded with cameras and lenses and spending a lot of time changing lenses, lugging around stuff and seeing more of Yosemite through my finder than with my eyes. I missed a lot. Although I will probably take more than an XA2, I will simplify, simplify, simplify. When did it become so complicated? Serious gear for birding, at the shore, in the woods. Simple gear for vacations.

I got the same scam.

Our first lp, Les Elgart, The Dancing Sound from 1956. It’s hanging on a wall in our house next to our second lp, Frank Sinatra, The Voice, same year. Our first download—haven’t done that yet.

Thanks for the Peter Max. I needed a jolt to my humdrum birds and trees and flowers.

Beautiful! But how do you do it? Find the time to find and listen to all this great music?

Another reason to like you Scruples. I also shoot film. Wouldn’t give up my Olympus OM4 for anything. Photography is about creating images. How one chooses to do this is personal. it’s not about the camera. It’s about the artist chooses to create.