The crowd was gathered as in the previous picture but of course they were late in getting started. An older most formal looking gentleman and his even more formal looking wife (straight back, square shoulders, tailored clothes) were sitting at the end of the second row.
The man had a full kit of lovingly tended forty year old Nikon camera equipment. He was shy but I watched him gather himself up tall and respectfully approach this man who was at least two generations his junior. He was the keynote speaker, and the man with the camera introduced himself and asked if he might take a picture. He was obviously so impressed to be meeting the speaker that I asked if he would like me to take a picture of the two of them together. He replied that he would be very glad of that, and first he would set up the shot. So he messed around with his camera and then I took the picture.
As I walked back to where I had been standing his wife laid on me an utterly unforgettable beneficent smile, like a gift, and mouthed ‘thank you’ and I nodded her a smile too because we both knew how beyond glad her husband was with the way this had turned out. Then he wanted to do me the honor in return and so I of course accepted.
So here it is, me and Mr Rodney Reynolds, publisher of American Legacy Magazine. I filtered up the picture for fun.