| My dad is
helping me with this page but I worked with him on all of
the information that you see here. My mom's favorite
color was purple so we used a lot of purple. Don't forget to scroll down to see all of the page. My mom's name was Becky Smith. Becky was short for Rebecca. She was about 5 foot 9 inches tall and had dark brown hair and pretty blue eyes. She had a very sweet face and everybody loved her. She was born in 1959 and met my dad in 1978 where they worked. They got married in 1979. Mom and dad got interested in photography and started their photography business about 1981. Dad did all the photography and mom helped him and took care of the business stuff like paying the bills. |
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They wanted to have a baby for a long time but they didn't have me until 1992. The picture at the left shows mom eating ice cream while she was pregnant with me. When I was born, they kept me at the studio so I sort of grew up around photography. I went to all the conventions they went to and got to be friends with lot's of nice people. Mom's friends were also my friends and there are some very special people in photography. Some of the people that mom really loved were, Sunny Arrant, Ellenore Hendrie, Debbie Scott, Robert and Jean Suddarth, Charles Foster, and our special friends Greg and Dana LaRue. There are so many people that I can't count them all but these are just a few. |
| One time, at a
convention, my mom saw a program when a man named Michael
showed everyone how to do Pola-Painting using an old
Polaroid SX-70 camera. Mom fell in love with the idea and
decided she wanted to try. My dad bought her a camera and
she started doing Pola-Paintings. Pretty soon, we were
traveling around the country and she was teaching others
how to do it. If you don't know what Pola-Paintings are,
just visit my dad's main web site and click on the SX-70
link. Mom was really good at doing Pola-Paintings and won a lot of awards and even had a big show at the International Photography Hall of Fame in Oklahoma. A man named Stacey takes care of the museum and invited mom to show her work there and to also teach. Stacey was so nice to mom. Her show was a big success and dad and I were so proud of her. She worked very hard to get her degree as a Master of Photography and got the last print merits that she needed, the week that she died. We were so proud of her. She made about 600 beautiful Pola-Paintings and you can see some of them on dad's web site. Mom loved Christmas very much. Her and dad always decorated the living room up really big with a whole city under the tree with trains and over a thousand lights. She did a lot of cooking around holiday time and loved to bake cookies while we decorated the tree. It was so much fun. For Thanksgiving and Christmas, she cooked big dinners that were really good. We had leftovers for days afterward. |
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Mom also love to
help me color Easter eggs at Easter. She would get color
stuff all over her hands and look really silly. Sometimes
mom acted really funny and made me laugh. At halloween
she dressed up as a green dinosaur and looked so cute. My mom loved music very much. She listened to a lot of oldies like Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, and Elvis. She also listened to other music by people like Elton John, the Bee Gee's, England Dan and John Ford Coley. Just like me, she was also crazy about the music of Trout Fishing In America and Eric Heatherly. You can read about these people in Dad's personal area of the site. Mom really loved music a lot. She always had it playing while she worked. Mom didn't do a lot of dancing but when she had music playing at home, sometimes she would dance with me and act silly to the music. She was fun to be with. She always helped me with my homework and did a lot of stuff at school for the teachers. The teachers loved her because she would stay and help for as long as they needed her. Mom read to me all the time, especially at night before I went to sleep. She was a great reader and also bought me lots of books to read. |
| Mom really loved
Coke stuff and collected all sorts of things. Dad bought
her lots of Coke stuff on Ebay and when we traveled we
always looked for places that had Coke stuff. Keep
watching this area because we are going to make a page
all about mom's Coke collection. Most of all, I want to say that mom was a great mom. I loved her so much and just wish that she did not have to get cancer. I will always miss her. - Jennifer |
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