'The greatest job'

I took these shots at a DARE carnival -- a traveling parking lot affair which was sponsored by the local police DARE people, which is how they fund their program now that most federal and state funding has been dropped (mainly because it's been proven to not work at keeping kids off drugs). I took many of the photos for the officers themselves as a favor, but was basically there for the newspaper.

When the DARE officer thanked the newspaper for attending I replied that we wouldn't ever miss out on a chance to photograph kids on carnival rides even if the benefit was to keep kids on drugs.

Anyways, we always take more shots than run in the paper, so I thought I'd post some of the better ones here. There was this one real cute girl who was super excited to ride on the carousel with her mom and I thought it would make a nice photo.

While I was taking the shots, just after I asked for her and her mother's name from her father, he looks at me and says: 'You have the greatest job.'

I don't know what his job is or how boring it may be, but he's certainly right that, sometimes, being a newspaper reporter/photographer is the greatest job in the world. Not always, but sometimes.