He Said, She Said and Getting My Just Dues

About a year after Jason and I married, we took a cruise. The trip was grand and I could post many a story about it. Maybe I will one day. Maybe I'll never get around to it. (Well, I know it's what y'all are thinking!) But I will share one with you. One that has affected our entire marriage to date. Funny how little things can carry through the years, huh?

We flew into Santo Domingo to meet our boat (like I said - whole other story). We spent a morning there and decided to kill time by walking down to look out on the vastness of the ocean. We took our camera of course. While sitting and enjoying the scenery and each other's company, I shot a picture of the water crashing on the rocks. It was a perfect scene, the resulting spray was glorious. And surprisingly (since you never know with my pics) the shot turned out beautifully! So a couple of weeks later, Jason and I are sitting in our Reese Road living room, skimming through the bajillion photos we had taken (only three of which actually had people in them) when I run across and recognize this rather perfect shot and say "Wow! I took a really great picture. Look at this one." to him. Only to have Jason say "What are you talking about? I took that shot!".

And so it began.

For years now Jason and I have been battling over who took what shot. It's rather annoying. For those of you who know me well, you know that my memory generally stinks. But the truth of the matter is, when I do remember, I remember well. There is generally no hem-hawing over how it went down. I know how it went down! Am pretty damn sure of it to be certain! If I say I took the picture, then you better believe...I took the picture!!! (Are you reading this Jason?)

But, as you can probably understand, it's usually easier to just say, "Ok honey, I was wrong. You took the photo and it's a great photo!". (Advise to wives - it's important to leave out any hints of sarcasm.)

But no more.

So what brought me to this point? The breaking point? The boiling point? The I Ain't Taken No More Photo Crap point? Sunset at Anzac Hill! We decided to take the family up last week and get in a few shots practice with my manual adjustment technique (which stinks by the way). We get back and, low and behold, what should happen when I download the pics but we start with the photo bickering. So this time I had one on him. Since Jason took only "Auto" photos and mine were manually adjusted, I could easily go back to the camera card and figure out who took what.

He took this.


And this.



Both are wonderful. I won't begrudge him his great pics!

But I took this.


And this.

And the one at the top. While they may not be professional photos, they aren't too bad. And they're MINE!! (Boy do I sound like a five year old or what?) Hey, I only want my just dues, man!