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Photo Mechanic founder Dennis Walker shares how the popular software was born during coverage of Super Bowl XXXII in 1998.

LOS ANGELES —  Blair Godbout, a veteran Associated Press photo editor whose calm demeanor, attention to detail and warm, outgoing personality made him friends with arguably everyone he met in a business in which the rush to be first is often tense and competitive, has died at age 66. Godbout died March 19 at his rural home in Sonora, California, with his wife, Sheri Malone, at his side. The couple moved to the historic Sierra Nevada Gold Rush town after Godbout took early retirement in 201...