It Doesn’t Hurt to Laugh
by Susan Littlefield Copyright: © 2008 21 Pages For a camera enthusiast like me, there’s just something about the feel of that magic black box with lense and flash in hand, so I decided to write my essay for you. In college, I spent my loan refund on a $400 35mm Canon Rebel SG and a love of photography was born. Last year, I snatched up a digital Canon Powershot on sale at a Circuit City that was going under. I love it because it still has that big bulky feel of my old 35mm. Most people these days are all about convenience. They prefer the palm sized snapshot matchbox cameras with only two or three buttons. Heck, even cell phones have cameras now. But not me. I’ll take my two handed SLR and a tripod anyday! There’s just something about it. Susan Littlefield knows what I’m talking about. Susan was an office manager for her local cable company for 32 years. Always the first into work each day, she went into the kitchen to make the morning coffee when she slipped on a spill on the floor one day. She fell forward and hit her head on the sink and was knocked unconscious for six hours. This resulted in a brain injury causing Susan to have to retire from her job exactly 32 years from her date of hire. Despite her family taking a financial hit by now having to rely on only the income of her husband, Susan also suffered from speech problems, depression, and memory loss. Susan’s husband presented her with a DSLR camera one Christmas, but mastering photo taking was not an easy process for her. Three major issues that Susan still deals with because of the accident are short term memory loss, difficulty multi-tasking, and hardships with trying to learn new things. Susan would dutifully sit for hours listening to CD’s on camera operation, lighting, settings, focus, etc. only to forget everything when she picked up the camera. Obviously, Susan becomes frustrated easily but fell in love with the camera despite all the difficulties. It was the advice of her youngest son which led to a new hobby.
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