Stand-Up Friend

“My favorite story about your dad is when he was the score caller at our camera club’s competition. When we have our monthly photography competitions, we invite three photographers from other area clubs to act as judges. Each judge is given a scoring device and they score an image 1 thru 9. 9 being the best. The machine shows the individual scores and a total score from all three judges combined.

The score caller calls out the combined score. Now sometimes a judge will make an obvious mistake and the judge or another will call “rescore.” One of my images was being judged and the judges gave it 15. Alvin yelled out “rescore” and the judges promptly rescored it at 15 again. Even though I received a low score I was still pleased your dad stuck up for me.”

— Arnold Koenig, Dad’s long-time photography buddy