Archive for September, 2006
Toodle-pip
Well folks, it’s time for my summer holiday. I’ll be off to Canada now! I should be able to get online from time to time, especially in the first week, so hopefully I will soon have some nice photos to share with you. Or let’s put it this way - hopefully I will soon have some nice photos (period). If I come back with the disk full of crap, I’ll be mighty disappointed!
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Update to yesterday’s episode with the juveniles: I spoke with my Loos connection and it appears that the apple munching kid is a known troublemaker. My friend promised to have a nice little chat with him, proving once again that it’s not what you know, but who you know!
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It’s no secret that I don’t like kids. Feel free to judge me for that, but all I say is that there is too much evidence for me to think any otherwise. A couple of weeks ago a bunch of youths were riding their mopeds around my house. I had to get out and ask them what the heck they were up to, but they quickly vanished from the scene before giving me any reasonable explanation (I gravely doubt there was any).And just now - a teenager riding a bike around house, making engine noises (very mature, that), with another kid leaning against the rowan on my front lawn, eating apples. I showed myself in the kitchen window and the kid with the apples stood up, left an apple core on the ground and moved himself to the driveway instead. After a few moments I heard pounding on the roof. Mama’s little angel was throwing apple cores at my house! Finally I had enough, and decided to take a picture of them - that would probably be a lot more effective than asking for their names. I deliberately fiddled with the camera in front of the window, and as soon as they caught the sight of it, they rode off. Didn’t feel too photogenic then, eh?
Don’t tell me that boys will be boys. They can bloody well be that somewhere else but not on my front lawn! Zero tolerance.
I know that the brats won’t be reading this blog, but I would just like to state this for the record - you violate the sanctity of my home, and I will take pictures. Also known as mug shots…
1 commentWhat makes a good photo
I came across an interesting discussion on Fotosidan today, so far it’s accumulated nearly 700 posts. It’s in Swedish of course, mostly it concerns the art of image critique and the setup of Fotosidan galleries, but there’s also talk about what makes a good photo so here’s the gist of it: a good photo is black & white, preferably a bit blurry and it must contain people or something man-made.Ex-f***ing-cuse me?!
I don’t like black & white, blurry pictures with people in them. I take colour pictures of flowers, animals and landscape with as little hand of man as possible, and god forbid they are blurry. Ergo, my photos are bad.
I’m still laughing!
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