Civil War Photographer

            My job as a photographer is good and bad. You have to get up at whatever time that gets you up in time to get to wherever your going and you have to be there early in the morning and you have to stay until late at night but you also get to go to exciting places. So one time I went to one of the war grounds and when I got there I was astonished. The reason I was astonished was because I saw a lot of dead bodies and that scared me. So at 5:00am my partner Rick and I walked to the field next to it and when we got there it was about 6:00am. When Rick checked his watch and he said”Holy cow its already 6:00" and I said “So why is that so surprising to you? Oh, I didn’t know it was just 5:00 an hour ago! Oh I see now. Hey Rick look at one of my pictures that I took! Isn’t that a cool picture?” Rick said “Yeah, so where did you get that?” I said “I got it at field one.” Rick said ”So I take it that it’s the first field.” I said “ Yes it is.“ Rick asked “So why didn’t you show me when you took it?” I said  “Because I forgot that I took it.“ Rick asked “Well then how did you find it?” I said “I was looking through my pictures and that’s how I found it.” Rick said “Oh okay. So do you have any other cool pictures?” I said “I don’t know.” Rick said “Well don’t just stand there. Start looking!” I said “Okay! Gosh don’t be impatient!”  Then Rick said “So, have you found anything yet?” I said “No, not yet.” Rick asked “How many pictures did you take?” I said “I think I took 500 pictures!” Rick said “Wow! That’s a lot! Hey Lucas, guess what time it is.” I said “I don’t know. What time is it?” He answered “Its 7:00pm.” I said “Wow! So I take it that we’ve been here for 13 hours. So I guess we should get going.” Rick asked “Why?” I said “Why? Are you so crazy?” Rick said “No, I’m not.” I said “Yes you must be, because it is 7:00 and we live 4 hours away from our homes! We’re stuck all the way out here and if we don’t get going it will be past 11:00 when we get home. When did you want to leave?”  Rick said “I was thinking about leaving at 8:00.” I said “Dude that means that we’ll get home at mid-night and we have to wake up and go to work at 1:00!” Rick said “So, I’m leaving later. I found a really cool necklace that I’d like to photograph.” I said “Okay, well bye.” Rick said “Okay, see you tomorrow!” So I went home and got an hours sleep. Its now 1:00 in the morning and I’m really tired and hungry and there’s no time to even get something to eat before going back to the fields.

Once I got to the field I saw Rick right away. “Hey Rick! We need to go to Field Seven today, but I’m going to go Field Six first because I think that I forgot to check the upper part.” Rick said “ Okay, whatever. Works for me.”

When I got to Field Six I saw a dead body with his insides out. “ Yucky! I think that I’m going to be sick.” So I guess I wont be taking any pictures of that! Its sad that I have to take these pictures and I think that it is really sad that I have to send these pictures to the families and the loved ones. Some days I wish that I had another job.