Perdoem-me
meus amigos no Brasil, mas hoje o post é em inglês!
So I have always loved photos! Big deal! Who doesn’t??
Pictures are a wonderful way to make your present last forever!
Who does not want that?
(Ok, if it's not a happy present, you may not! But, let's think see the glass half full here!)
Well, earlier this year I thought I could be a photographer.
(Who, you??)
Yes, even Obama must have laughed at me!
I started a course, bought a camera, lenses and walked around the city looking
for nice images. Images I had seen behind my lenses that would be unusual and beautiful to all.
Then, I came across an add on the Roosevelt Island's local newspaper inviting people to send their
pictures of the beautiful island I live on for the next year’s calendar. Naive,
as I am, I sent a few of mine. One of them was printed on one of the
newspaper’s weekly issue.
I got so excited about it that when they showed the pictures
that had been selected for the calendar I could not notice that wonderful
September 11th picture was not mine! Motivated by a mistake, I
ordered a few calendars with “my picture” to send my folks in Brazil, so they
could feel a bit of my belonging to NYC… AT LAST!
To my surprise, when I got the calendars, the September
picture was not mine, - big disappointment here - but one that
looked a lot like the one I had taken.
Knowing that in the US the customer is
always well respected, I requested for a refund of those calendars, as it would
make no sense that I sent them to my family 'cause none of my images had been in
it.
unlike what I could expect, the story did not end in the very welcome return
of the calendars I had mistakenly purchased.
That was when Santa Dick Lutz Claus showed up!
And also a bit of the admirable culture difference!
I got an email from the newspaper’s editor - Dick - saying he had
left something for me at the building’s concierge.
What a surprise and happiness
was it when I saw my pictures printed to the 2013’s Roosevelt Island Calendar?!?!?
SPEECHLESS!
Still am!
If by any chance this was intended to be a minor
Merry Christmas-Happy Holiday gift gesture; I must say Santa Claus was so lucky to
have chosen this way to make me happy this year.
Tonight I am just so proud of my pictures!!!
And so happy to share this feeling with you all!
Dick, we have never met! However, you made me feel like I belong!
THANK YOU! So much!
May we all make people as happy as I feel now!
Merry Christmas to all!
feLICIdade in Portuguese means happiness in English, however, in Portuguese my name is in it! ;)
