Welcome to Day 9! I wanted to switch it up and write about an old photo that my dad took of us. Since it has been raining in Cali for the past 4 days- I came across these from my dad’s collection and saw it to be appropriate with today’s weather. The group photo didn’t need much editing, so I just brightened and cropped it a little bit to make the rain look more dramatic.
This is Dad taking a photo of Mom, Jerry Jr. (aka Jojo or Joe), and myself. Joe is recording Brian’s soccer game at Bonita High School (me and my brother’s future school). My brothers had a game every weekend. And even though it was raining, that didn’t stop our family from teaming up to record Brian’s game. Do you understand how heavy, inconvenient, and careful you have to be to carry around this equipment in the 1980’s?! Nothing is waterproof (nor even water-resistant), which means my dad was holding an umbrella with one hand and holding his camera in the other to take this photo. And Joe wouldn’t have been able to record carefully without Mom being there to keep him and the equipment dry.
I was about 4 years old at the time- just old enough to run around and climb onto things like a wild child, as long as I didn’t go to far and checked in from time to time…which is exactly what I’m doing with Mom and Joe in the group picture!
I was never able to keep still.
We have some of these old VHS tapes stored away somewhere…One of Dad’s projects was getting them converted in to digital, so we’ve been able to look back at a few of them. One of these days, we’ll have all of them stored on a hard drive!
Thank you Dad for making these so accessible for us to remember our beautiful family.
JT