What I did for THIS picture

Posted by Sammy on Feb 21st, 2010 | 3 comments home title

For the longest time Gary had been bugging me to get our wedding negatives from our photographer. I DREADED doing this because I knew it would be a hassle. I had tried to do it over a year ago but never got a call back saying that the negatives were found and then the whole chemo thing happened and yeah well my priorities were elsewhere.

Once Gary passed those negatives became priceless to me. I enlisted the help of a great friend of mine, Christi. She called up my photographer and he basically gave her the cold shoulder because she wasn’t ME. Finally I got fed up with him avoiding her that I made the call and got ahold of him. I made plans to go find my negatives at his house. Yes you read that right, FIND! He made me help him clear out his closet and look for OUR box. The nerve! He hadn’t even bothered to look for them himself. He seriously waited for me to go.

Well Christi and I went, and somehow we found the box of negatives. Once we got them we left and I started looking through them looking for 1 picture in particular. This picture is what drove me to get our negatives. I wanted this picture to be framed and placed on the shelf where Gary’s urn will be placed once Mikey and I officially move back home.

This is one of my favorite photos of Gary. He cleaned up really well if I might say so myself

All I have now are pictures and the memories in my head. I’ll never get to see this beautiful smile looking back at me ever again.

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Melanie says:

February 22, 2010 at 3:58 pm

That is an AWESOME picture of Gary!
Sandra says:

February 22, 2010 at 10:41 pm

Even though I never met Gary, I have to say that is an amazing picture! It makes me smile. Congrats on your new RED Pilot!
Karen says:

February 27, 2010 at 6:34 pm

I have to say Sam I really LOVE that picture of Gary….

What I did for *THIS* picture

What I did for THIS picture