Anodyne
Thursday, March 16, 2006
 
Making pictures of flowers, even those on private property, provides loads of camera-club style verbal outs:

[CJB conspicuous in the middle of a vacant lot on Point Grey Road. The lot's owner unexpectedly materializes in an expensive late-model SUV and executes a slow circle around the startled photographer]

SUSPICIOUS PROPERTY OWNER: Help you?

CJB: Just taking a snapshot of this tree.

SPO: Snapshot, eh?

CJB: Nice saturated colors today...rain...leading lines..."18% grey"...here, check it out. [Proffers camera]

[Digital-playback mode]

SPO: Why is there only one picture of my tree, and sixteen-odd pictures of logging slash and construction debris?

CJB: Um....
- posted by cjb @ 11:09 PM


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