Greeting Spring
I tend to go and greet the Spring.
This is by going to a lake
just outside our city.
Where the Swans lands to eat and rest,
A true sign of spring.
Some years ago.
Some boys had shot a serie of fireworks in this place.
4000 Swans flew into a panic. That year the greeting was not as we thought.
When I arrived many swans had returned but
far from all.
I was starting to shoot and suddenlysomething happend. Everyone was looking at me
then complete mess, birds screaming
running, flying at each other and in a matter of
seconds the birds were gone. There I stood
alone with the angry bird watchers, who
everyone wanted to give me a hard lesson ....
My camera gave away
a sound of ratatatata ..... and the flash went off
I had forgotten to set the approximate
values, and I forgot to turn off
the automatic flash. The photos I took became
a yellow disaster. I have turned them into
B/W to see if it is something to keep.
be something to keep. So tell me what you think ....
These days I never forget my own misstakes, (Just about every day)
I set the camera on approximate values before I enter the groundso I dont have to be killed by birdwatchers
The birds can fly I am stuck on the ground.
All alone with the birdwatchers .
We make misstakes and by the time they also might give us a great laughter and we learn I hope you will enjoy ...
This is a great story!
ReplyDeleteI laughed to tears, picturing the situation!
After that, did you run away from the Bird People ? =D
I once spent a few hours shooting with my camera set to Art/Diorama mode. Great colours, but only in the computer I noticed that only the central area was in focus, even with small apertures. Doh!
I very quietly left the scene and hoping not to be recognized the coming year. It is sometimes a surprise what comes out of the different setting lol
DeleteAccidents do happen, no matter how hard we do try to avoid them ;-) And do we learn from them? Yes, probably not to do the same mistake. But hey, people are so creative to come up with new mistakes... =D
ReplyDeleteBut I think the second black and white version of the shots you got Eva, is good! =)
Oh we can be deadserious ,do the work and it ends like a big failure. Thank you Sami
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