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Subject: Re: [Leica] How to photograph your cat
From: Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:07:34 -0700
References: <ECC6F7B330A26C40B652962C47DEA25801370B05@asc02.asc.upenn.edu>

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.
>
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu> ([Leica] How to photograph your cat)