[SI] My Red Shot
Red or Read, they both sound the same to me.
Early on the saturday morning (my time) the posting announcing the mandate appeared, and I immediately got to thinking of what to post. The thought occurred to post an archive shot of some old tractors I saw the previous weekend at a heritage festival, but thought I'd better do something original. Things like flowers, red cars etc popped into my mind but I thought them a bit too cliched, plus I wanted to do it in B&W. So saturday afternoon I was off driving around and saw in front of a church a slogan that was something along the lines of "The best bible is the read bible", and suddenly it clicked - I'd take a photo of a bible. Well my old bible didn't look real photogenic, so decided to go up to the local library to see what they had. The ones for loan again looked pretty dull, then the thought hit me - red/read - something by Marx, Tung, Stalin etc - the library drew blanks, and since I wanted to do the shot in B&W a red book wouldn't really have impact. The wife got out The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and we headed home. When she got home, she plonked them down on the table where they sat for a couple of days. A couple of days later she started nagging me about wanting her camera back (I had it loaded with B&W), so I headed out to the park to finish the roll. Got home with still one shot left, saw the books on the table, cleared away the other junk that had accumulated around them and snapped away. In retrospect, I probably should have just left them with the junk around them - it would have had more of a "better off read" impact. |
Graham Fountain wrote:
In retrospect, I probably should have just left them with the junk around them - it would have had more of a "better off read" impact. The thought occured to me as well. But red is not read. -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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