Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]please tell us Kyle that this is fantasy, and not the story of your life, in a hundred words or less... ;-) (only a little jealous) Steve >From my upcoming book _How to Photograph Anything_ (looking for a publisher >at the moment). This is chapter 4 "How to Photograph Your Cat" > >1) invite some model home on the pretext that your liquor cabnet is awash in >absinthe, recently smuggled back from lands where they don't yet know >better. > >2) spend about five hours getting potted and listening to alice cooper. > >3) phone rings, it's mom, ask her "Isn't it past your bedtime? Who gave you >this number? I'll call you tomorrow." > >4) hang up telephones. sway back into living room, wondering why there are >suddenly two models. ask both of them "shouldn't we take some photos before >the sun comes up?" > >5) while trying to figure out why the two flashes aren't giving off any >light when power switch is set to "on", stare blankly at the floor for two >minutes before remembering that it's not a hot light and that it only lights >up for a fraction of a second and only when triggered. > >6) set palms on fire trying to pat out flaming absinthe one of the models >spills on the stairs. > >7) manage a few photos of models who then run upstairs to see if any liquor >remains in house which has escaped watchful eyes of rock band recently >crashed on living room floor. > >8) jealous cats jump up on chairs asking "don't you love us more than them?" > >9) snap a few photos of cats and chase them off of chairs. > >10) next few steps very hazy.... > >11) wake up with face crusted to bathroom floor, flip through prints and >realize one model and one cat did not show up on film yet have distinct (if >completely fuzzy) memory of them. > >12) realize phone number model left on napkin begins with "555" > >13) post cat images to LUG. > > > > >No Archive >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Steve Barbour - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html