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International Antique and Classic Boat Show

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L ukey and Kenzie accompanied us to the International Antique and Classic Boat Show on Lake Champlain in Burlington last weekend.  The weather was great although maybe a bit too hot for a September afternoon.  We walked quite a few miles as we drooled over many antique boats.   After perusing all the beautiful boats all along the waterfront, we brought the grandkids out to dinner for their first barbeque meal at a restaurant that specializes in barbeque.  Barbeque is hard to find up here in Vermont so our choice of restaurants was limited.  Sheila and I had been here once before so we knew what dishes to avoid at this particular restaurant.  We chose to order a bunch of different dishes and share them family-style.  Overall, it was a great meal and we left completely full! We then made our way back home to sit around a warm fire in the backyard and have some S'mores for dessert.  It was a long, busy but very good day! Here are a few of the many photos from our day... Trying to find

Old vs New

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When I was a relatively young child, around the time I was leaving elementary school, my grandfather gave me one of his old twin lens reflex cameras.  I had just begun to show an interest in photography and was about to take a class in photography in my new school.  This was still the era of slow and deliberate shooting in photography.  Capturing a single good photo took time and careful planning.  Everything was done manually and deliberately.  These twin lens reflex cameras were  from an era before my time and thus were  all manual as well. My original Bioflex, left, and my new Mint.  The older I grew, the more I realized that Gramps and I shared a lot of the same interests and photography was one of them.  That being said, my father also seemed to have one camera or another in his hands throughout my childhood.   This old twin lens reflex camera (TLR camera), although non-operable, was the first camera that I could call my own. This camera was in terrible shape when I recei