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Amateur Photography: Leave a Legacy

Susan grew up watching her dad take snapshots of the family, stills of nature and black and white pieces of art that only his eye could see until the photograph was developed.

He was not a photographer by trade. He was a military man. The U.S. Navy, but he had the gift of seeing life differently.

As an adult Susan picked up the camera and tried to be like her father. She never thought her pictures were as creative as his, but she never gave up.

The world of digital made it far less stressful to take many shots, sometimes hundreds, at one birthday party or football game. She found she could comb through each frame and choose the best photographs before deleting the rest. She learned to play with color and cropping to create more pictures from the existing file. Continue reading