One of the things I love about photography, and try to emphasize to everyone I talk to about photography is that we capture things we love to remember with it. Seriously. The one down side is that sometimes we remember the photograph more than the time. I have known Ray Borden for 40 years. This sounds funny to me saying this...but it is true. Ray and I became best friends probably in Junior High. I remember hanging out with him before school started in the cafeteria of the high school and we laughed and laughed. I think it was at that time I really knew what friendship was. My 'best' friends up to that point had somehow not kept up with me. Ray was different. With Ray we could get mad with each other and just know that was all it was(admittedly I got mad more with Ray than he did with me, but that was my being a jerk--not him!). I actually haven't seen Ray in a few years now, but still consider him my best of friends(now as we get older we have multiple best friends so Jim, Craig, Chris, Harmony and Sam and brother Bob are still right there too!), I guess its something in the history that we live that binds us. I have photographed Ray many times over the years and each of these photographs I remember the fun we had.. and I can't remember a bad time with Ray other than when we were teenagers and growing too fast for our own good--and again--it was me being a jerk and not Ray--Ray has been a consistent and great friend from the start! Not sure why I chose to write about this tonight other than I've been looking back a lot lately and I stumbled upon these old photos as I was looking to make today's post. Photography--has certainly---been a very very very good thing in my life! Photographs by Richard Sayer.