I was looking at all them replies to why you got into photography thread. Several of the answers were to have the memories and that got me to thinking about something I saw awhile back. I was at an estate auction a few months back and there were lots of boxes piled together. I came upon a box that was full of photos, photo albums and cards a woman had saved for many years. I started to look through some of them and they were family photos. I know the person whose estate it was had children and yet that had just taken all those family memories of them and their parents and sent them to be dug through by whoever was the highest bidder. To me it was just sad that they would get rid of all those memories. (maybe they had scanned all of them or something, but I know I could never take any of my family photos and do that. To me they are too precious even if I have them scanned into my computer. )

I thought i might post the most important photo I ever took with that old box camera. It is nothing fancy but it means the world to me. I had just put a roll of film in it and wanted to test the flash to be sure the batteries were okay. My grandfather, who lived with us was in the kitchen so I snapped this picture. He had lived with us all my life and I adored the man. Four days after I took this photo he passed away. I have other pictures of him but this is the way I remember him, dressed in his bib overalls.