Another first for the new year!  A new blog category called “My Favorite Things” (amongst which is actually that song from the movie “The Sound of Music” – great song, great movie!).  At the top of that list and keeps me laughing and gets my chin up when I’m down:  What the Duck.  An online only cartoon that started just a few years ago and took off with our industry.  There are so many strips that have themes that hit home with us photographers – wedding photographers especially – that when I got the book “Rule of Nerds” for Christmas two years ago, it kept me laughing for a week straight (I paced myself and read just a few a day;o).  Even if you’re not a photographer, you will laugh because sometimes, there’s just some fun stuff there about interactions with people, period.

This strip is actually framed, sitting above my desk in my office. A daily reminder that sometimes, folks just don’t get what it is that I do.  My friends get it, my family gets it, but sometimes I still get this “compliment”, too!  Really?  It’s my camera’s fault that the photo was good?  LOL, the camera can make a difference, don’t get me wrong.  However, the camera didn’t know when to shoot or which way the light was best or even if there was anything TO shoot!

Which reminds me of a great quote I saw recently posted by a friend on Facebook:

“A typewriter never wrote a great novel any more than a camera took a great picture.”

Would someone say to Hemingway that he must have had a great typewriter?  Or did Shakespear have a rockin’ feather quill with all the fancy options?  Hee hee….

Check out What the Duck and have a good laugh!