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We have not
had a lot of luck finding good pictures of
Sampson at a young age. However, we did find
some old photos, and scanned them here to help
show Sampson as he was a young puppy. We
hope to eventually find more (and better) photos,
and of course we will post them here if we do.
Tim's family
adopted Sampson as 3-month old puppy in 1988,
after their previous dog had died the previous
winter in a freak accident. Tim was a senior
in high school at the time, and the two bonded
quickly.
These two
pictures are the oldest pictures of Sampson that
we can currently find. They were taken in
May, 1989, when Sampson was about a year and a
half old. Sampson was used to finish off a
roll of film from Tim's college band European
tour. Sampson filled very little of the
3x5" snapshot, only about a 1/2" x
1x2" area. The pictures below have been
enlarged and cropped, but are fuzzy because of the
original size.
This
picture was taken as part of a photography class
project when Tim was in college, in approximately
1990. Sampson would have been about two in
this picture. The project assignment was
"self portrait", and the object was to
take a picture which described something about
yourself, without actually just taking your own
picture. Tim decided to take this picture of
Sampson, purposely allowing his own shadow to be
part of the picture.
The
remaining pictures below were taken in 1992, when
Tim's brother Mike brought Diane, the person who
would eventually become his wife home to our
family for the first time. Pictured with
Sampson, are Mike, Tim, and Diane. The
yellow floodlights that were on Mom's deck at the
time give these pictures some interesting lighting
effects.
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updated on Wednesday, August 24, 2005