April 23, 2005
Looking Up, Looking Down
I thought this would be Number 3 in the Peeling Paint series , but my new camera is so nifty that it just focused on what it was supposed to focus on, blurring the background, thus losing the nuance of the peel. (I have finally found a little button that makes it all possible). This little curlyque is forty feet up in a tree of some sort.
Someone pointed out to me recently that many of my photos are taken in the down direction, rather than the up direction. As I was shooting this particular froufrou high up in a tree, a little girl walked by with her dad. Mind you, it was close to 80 degrees, so we know that she had definitely chosen her costume for for it's photogeneity, rather than it's comfort. Of course, I had to take her picture, which, sadly, does not do justice to her fabulous chicken hat.
I asked permission to take her picture. I couldn't get the pose just right (which would have required my usual fifteen shots), even though I had a willing model. I didn't want to make her father, who was enjoying our interaction to that point, uncomfortable or suspicious. Sad days.
