A Little Request

We Take some pretty amazing pictures each summer. How can we not? Perfect setting. Perfect models. Perfect pictures are the natural course of things. I hope you enjoy them. I hope they convey some of the magic that we experience every day.

That being said… pictures are not perfect!

We have gotten a number of calls arising from the pictures that we post each day. Don’t get me wrong—- we LOVE hearing from you—- but you might want to tone down your “interpretation” of the photos. A few suggestions come to mind:

1. “She is hurt”——- That mark on her hand is really just magic marker or dirt or something. That “cast” is really toilet paper wrapped around in a cool temporary wrist band. Her eyes are red because she has just gotten out of the pool. If a camper is injured in any significant way, we call you.

2. “She is sad”——- Look at the pictures I post in my folder, tons of candid shots that don’t have smiles. Frankly, I get tired of smiles in every picture. Our efforts to show the various moments of emotion will sometimes capture a blank face or even a scowl. That does not mean the camper is sad or mad… relax! If your camper is having trouble adjusting to camp we will call you.

3. “She is alone”—- Sometimes being alone is the best part of camp (at least it is for me). I love the alone pictures, it shows contemplation and quiet. Sometimes it appears that a girl is alone because of the cropping of the picture. There are other friends just off to the side. A picture is not enough to ask us to do an investigation. We will gladly check into how things are going, but it is nice for there to be more reason that the occasional picture.

4. “I never see her”—- Some girls run away from the camera. We have camera’s all over camp all day long. At almost every assembly I have mine and girls come to me in droves asking for their moment of fame. Some girls hide from the camera and are very hard to capture… write your girls and encourage them to get at least one photo per day FOR YOUR SAKE!!! They can do it much easier than we can do it!

I am not lecturing, I just want the Group Leaders to spend their time on the “real” issues of camp not those that we invent because of the photos.

Whew.

Jimboy