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Within the past few years LifeWife has expressed an interest in photography. So being the type of guy who is all for personal development and enrichment. I bought her a camera. It was a pretty good little point and shoot and she loved it.

Now, years and years ago I was very interested in photography, in fact back then Time Life had a whole series of very good books on photography and I had purchased the whole set. LifeWife and I moved out to Calgary and those books were just too heavy to carry across three quarters of the country, and since then those books have gone. We don't know where or how but they're just gone. About 8 years ago my brother developed an interest in photography that has blossomed and now he's the guru. From those Time Life books and my interest earlier I have an understanding of the theory and am familiar with the terminology, but the transition from a film camera to a digital camera were challenging, so I wasn't much help. That's where GuruBri comes in.

So a couple of years go by and LifeWife expressed an interest in a camera that was a little more versatile. So I went to the guru and consulted him. Turns out that he was just investigating purchasing a camera for his daughter, and he thought that with purchasing two cameras we might both benefit from a "volume" purchase. So it looked like the investment on my part for a new camera for LifeWife was going to be in the 1500 dollar range. Now my initial reaction was that she would never agree to spending that much on a camera. So GuruBri and I arranged for him to come over for supper with all the flyer's and the glossy pictures and we were going to do a sales job on LifeWife. We planned it all out, what he would say what I would say, how we were going to pitch the whole thing to her.

GuruBri and I were sitting there five minutes into the dinner, with just the introduction to our pitch begun, with our jaws dropped. She willingly, nay wait, she eagerly acquiesced to our proposal regarding the acquisition of photographic equipment. She loves it and uses it a lot!

Anyway, part of our spring and on into the summer is to try and spend an evening a week with GuruBri, going out to locations and looking around for pictures to take and then come back and talk about some features of the camera and different things that the camera can do. Sort of a relaxed training course in digital photography.

Tonight was one of those nights. Now GuruBri had been on a trip to the land of our birth a couple of years ago, and we were looking at some of those shots and just chatting and listening to his stories, when he happened to mention that he had "lost" a whole folder of pictures in the transition to Windows 7. They happened to be the folder in which he had some very dramatic elephant pictures, and he was quite ticked that he had "lost" those pictures.

As he was talking a smile grew on my face, "What are you grinning about?" he asked.
"Well" says I with the grin growing, "Guess what I have on one of my hard drives?"

Yep, you guessed it at one point not long after he got back from the trip he had come over and I had copied all those Nigeria pictures onto my hard drive.

Hence the title of the post!!