I had forgotten I took my camera with me to the fair. Each year since I can remember I have had a Sausage sandwich with Jim Stefanucci at the fair. We worked together for the newspaper for about 12 years and we made it a point to meet for a half hour or so during a very busy week to sit and eat together. Sometimes we'd talk about pictures we made that day or broke from our jobs entirely and talked about the blues or art or fishing or family---all sorts of topics. When jim retired nearly two years ago we didn't feel our sandwich tradition needed to stop, so we meet at the fair. This year I brought my camera and asked him if he wanted to shoot some pictures. He laughed at me and said something about how he is retired and that is my job. So I had my camera with me and when we were done eating I decided to try some shots similar to ones I took earlier in the week. I had forgotten about them until I was editing through some other client photos and stumbled on them yesterday. So decided to post. The picture that was very similar to this that I did for the paper was a little better. The lone rider on the chair ride was in silhouette and the feel was more timeless. What I was hoping to get was the ride in the background also running which I did in the picture but never got it and a chair rider in just the right spots in the same photograph. This was the closest one I got. By the way, when Jim was watching me photograph one assignment he then admitted he wished he did take the camera because he saw that I was really missing the right photo. Some things never change! He is still trying to make me a better photographer. Photograph by Richard Sayer