Binoculars

Remember the cuffed pants? Take a look at the cuffs in this picture! These pants will probably last until he is fifteen! This picture was taken while Dad's family was on a trip to Yellowstone. Dad is in the middle with his father, John, on the left and his sister, Luana, on the right. I suspect Dad's mother took the picture.
As I was growing up, my father always took his binoculars with him whereever we would go. He would stare into them intently and then finally hand them over to me. He would carefully put the strap around my neck and give me a stern warning not to drop them. He explained that his father had a pair of binoculars that had a cracked lens. He said that was SO annoying and he didn't want a cracked lens in his binoculars.

So, was this picture taken before or after the cracked binocular lens? Who cracked the lens? Notice that the strap is firmly placed around the neck.