THE PHOTOGRAPHERS

 

Within my extended family are several shutterbugs and especially at our Lake Tahoe summer reunions the cameras quickly come out and start clicking away!

My cousin George and I accidentally started a fun thing one year that continued through many summers.  It began quite innocently.  He was taking a picture of our crowd at a camp potluck from one direction at exactly the same time I was taking a picture of the group from the opposite direction and we wound up taking a picture of each other taking a picture.  We laughed.

The next year we did it deliberately, and the year after that, and the year after that until after a while others decided to get in on the fun and it became a sort of family tradition to be involved. J    

1999 – My cousin Marian has her camera ready, my brother is shooting from the door of the RV, and George is snapping away straight at me.

On the other end of that, yours truly & cousin, Ro, are shooting back!

1999 – my youngest daughter takes a picture of family loaded in cousin George’s boat, ready for a ride.

2001 – My youngest sister is photographing the crowd from the doorway of their RV, but I don’t know who the photographer next to her is?

2001 – A little later I believe George and I were setting up to take pictures of each other.

2002 – That’s George in the doorway taking a picture of me taking a picture of him. J

2003 – Ditto


Ditto in 2006

And in 2007.

Also in 2007, George’s sister, Cousin Marian, wants everyone to look at her for a picture, but these four are smiling at my camera.

But I get caught when Cousin Phyllis trains her camera . . .

. . . on me with mine trained on her!

2008 – Both George on the left, and his sister, Marian, catch me as I catch them.


2009 – It was a kick catching each other in our lenses

2010 – My brother and George taking pictures of a cute scene. 

The cute scene - cousins roasting marshmallows over the campfire..

2012 – My sister has her camera ready to snap a pic’ of her husband attempting to get up on a paddleboard for the first time.

Unfortunately it didn’t work out quite as well as they’d hoped.

2012 – I capture Cousin Marian capturing me.

And George captures me capturing him.

2014  - This is the last picture I have of my cousin George taking a picture of me taking a picture of him.  I’m not sure why the tradition ended?  It wasn’t a’purpose.  Things were just changing.  Fewer members of the family were coming to the lake for the annual reunion and with less of us we began getting together at restaurants for dinner instead of having camp potlucks.  Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Unfortunately, George passed away in 2021 – the first of us nine cousins to head out on the journey beyond earth’s boundaries –taking some form of pictures all the way, I have no doubt! J

:->

La Nightingail

Comments

  1. PeterApril 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM

    With your tradition there is hardly any need to exchange pictures after the reunion :-) And I love the paddleboard action picture! It looks like the husband is taking a curve at high speed!

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    1. La NightingailApril 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM

      My sister's husband taking a curve at high speed on his paddleboard would have been a neat trick, but no - a nano second later he was in the drink! :)

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  2. Barbara RogersApril 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM

    What a fun tradition of duplicate photo efforts...and they worked so well with bit gatherings of your family. Loved the kids with marshmallows! Brings back many memories. Restaurant gatherings are easier on the people involved, but you miss the campfire smell!

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  3. Mike BrubakerApril 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM

    That is a LOT of camera photos of camera people! I can understand how it would become a family tradition when so many relations have a camera at hand. Strange that now with everyone having a smartphone/camera your tradition has diminished. If only animals had cameras, what kind of photos would they take?:–}

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