From: Shannon Stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 11/07/02-09:27:03 AM Z
>At 7:25 AM -0800 11/6/02, Shannon Stoney wrote:
>>One time I had my camera set up down by my creek, and just as I
>>tripped the shutter, a huge blue heron flew through the picture!
>>
>>But, she flew so fast that there was no image of the bird on the negative.
>>
>>--shannon
Sam wrote:
>
>But Shannon, if a picture is what you wanted, you can always just
>paste a blue heron in from stock photos. (Ducking.)
I drew it in with a sharpie pen. ;-)
>
>Sandy's point, as I saw it, was that there's life to be lived and
>treasured, even if we can't turn it into pictures. Or perhaps
>sometime it's even better to remain as "ones that got away."
It's true that it's hard to really pay attention to what's happening
in the moment and also be taking a picture. That's why I didn't take
a camera at all to Europe last time I went, in 1994. I thought it
would be a distraction from really looking. I took a sketchbook
instead. But that was back in my 35mm days. I am happier with the
view camera because it does encourage that kind of sketchbook
looking: long, slow, leisurely. However, if I'd been there with
y'all, I would have forgotten all about my camera too, for looking
into the eyes of eagles.
--shannon
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