Capturing the Good Ol' Days

When we were being photographed while growing up, it was a big deal.  Cameras were a luxury, film and developing were expensive, over exposure was an ever present danger if the film was exposed to light, and at the click of the shutter you had no idea how the picture was going to look.  If you made a weird face, looked fat or put your thumb over the view finder, all of those were the surprise you got when picking up the envelope from FotoMat.  Yet going through a box of old photos this evening, scanning them into a digitized world with AutoCorrect and PhotoShop, it was "real" ones that mean the most.  The mistakes.  The real life being captured.  I think I'll just save "as is".