We could’ve been a still photo, the kind from a booth at the mall where two dollars went in and a strip of three shots came out. Our image wasn’t the first shot, the one that was always frantic and unfocused. It wasn’t the second shot either–laughing and silly. No, this was the final image–the serious shot–where the couple realized they wanted a good picture to remember the moment by and couldn’t afford to screw the last one up.

We could’ve been a still photo, the kind from a booth at the mall where two dollars went in and a strip of three shots came out. Our image wasn’t the first shot, the one that was always frantic and unfocused. It wasn’t the second shot either–laughing and silly. No, this was the final image–the serious shot–where the couple realized they wanted a good picture to remember the moment by and couldn’t afford to screw the last one up.

– Elizabeth Langston –

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