September 1st, 2008

Subject : Picture
Posted Date: : Sep 1, 2008 9:03 AM


I love photos. I love taking pictures. Am I good at it? Probably not the greatest photographer, but I do like capturing moments. Very rarely do I like to do the whole SMILE AND SAY CHEESE thing. I really prefer to get pics of moments as they happen.

It can be seen by the massive amounts of pics that I have in my photo section. There are two types that you'll see: Moments, and Photo Ops.

The photo ops are something I do enjoy.

When I hit autograph signings or meet and greets, this is usually what happens. I wait an ungodly amount of time, I walk up, shake the person's hand, get my item signed, get my pic and be on my merry. The whole thing usualy lasts about 50 seconds to a minute and a half. The picture taken though, lasts much longer than that. That's the savor moment. Like taking a bite in to a juicy steak and savioring the taste.

Before I owned a digital camera, I had everythng taken on film, and I usually kept those pics close untill I could evntually get them scanned.

Well, I had a set of photos that were kept in a fold that when I moved, went MIA. Then an event happend last year that put me in a panic over the location. I had a good idea where they were, but when I checked, wernt there.

Tonight, I located said fold, and inside, a picture that has a bit of value.

This picture:




A signed poloroid with Chris Benoit at Rob Van Damn's store back in 2005.

Benoit was the top of 3 Wrestlers that I held in high esteem. The other two are Mike Awesome and Masato Tanaka.

Well, I got my picture with two of them, and Two of them are dead.

Awesome hung himself after his wife left him. I never to to meet him.

Benoit though, snapped one night, killed his wife, played with his son the rest of the day, then smotherd him before hanging himself on his weight set.

No one knows why he did it, and no one ever will. But the fact still remains that the man was one of the greatest wrestlers and a guy I loved to watch wrestle. He was a master at his craft.

Its pictures that remind us of the better times. Its also something to look at when events dont turn out the way you think they will.