dreams
One day, a little buttercup looked up.
And dreamed of being as tall as a radio tower!
The grasses said, "That's silly. A buttercup has never grown more than a foot."
But the buttercup was stubborn, and it grew and grew and grew.
Until the lawn mowers took it out a week later.
11 comments:
I cannot help but to think of The Princess Bride. I realize the movie's namesake character was not particularly interested in being tall, but your story has some of the same narrative tone.
Not surprisingly, the picture works significantly better for me at the larger size.
And I could not help thinking of this!
Love this pic, bien sur...
John- Pictures ALWAYS work at a larger size. You'll argue me on this, but I stand firm.
Darnit, Eric! I ripped you off and didn't even know it! I'm sorry. The Eiffel Tower makes a much better backdrop, anyway. ;)
There's a lot of symbolism here :)
Pity about the electricity pylon in the background, otherwise three very good images on the page.
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Nikon- Yes! The flower symbolizes... er...
;)
Curly- Um, thanks, but the pylon is intentional. I had to contort myself quite a bit to get this image. Oh- and if you want to see more than three images on a page, go to "archives (browse thumbs)." You'll see small versions of ALL my photos, and it won't take forever and a day to load.
Josy, do you find me overly predictable in general, or merely argumentative?
This and the mushroom shot do feature impressive vantage points. I don't know that I would have been able to pull them off because (1) I might have had to put my camera in or disturbingly close to dirt and (2) for any precision focusing, composition, or framing, I have to actually look through the viewfinder, which may have been impossible at those angles. (I guess I could just take repeated random shots, pointing the camera in a general direction with slight variations, but that would be much like the monkey-and-typewriter method of writing plays.)
John:
1. I think we've had the argument of larger vs. smaller before, so I'm just drawing on your arguments of the past.
2. I DO put my camera disturbingly close to the dirt. I even took it out in the rain to take 15-20 dshots of that double rainbow. THAT is exactly why I don't want to get a DSLR.
3. The monkey-and-typewriter method that you mention is something I use a lot. I shoot first, hope that I got some workable material, and crop later. If not, I go back and do it again. (This photo, as a matter of fact, is a reshoot- I accidentally got the tower in the background in one picture when I shot this buttercup with my Nikon 3200, decided that was really cool, and reshot it a few days later [in FOCUS] with my Fuji.) And see, THAT is why I love digital cameras and hate film. You can DO that.
This is a philosophy endorsed by Lomo. Google the company. They make cameras.
Ironically, I was much more of a lomographer back in my early days of shooting film. I had this funky-ass Yashica Samurai, which looked like a small camcorder but shot half-frame stills on 35mm. It quickly fell out of favor in the U.S. because developers didn't like bothering with the half-frame stuff, but continued in popularity in gadget-crazed Asia, naturally. But anyway, the point of mentioning that camera was that it was my first and that I could take about 75 shots on a "36-exposure" roll of film, so I felt like I could shoot all day without reloading... and often tested this. (I soon became very proficient at reloading film.)
My current camera is actually very well-suited for lomography in most respects. Not only does it store images electronically instead of on strips of chemically treated plastic, it is by far the fastest camera I have ever taken more than a smattering of pictures with. Yet I feel like it's too expensive to use willy-nilly. And I am kind of shamed by you and mgilpin into trying to take technically better pictures. Not an entirely bad thing, mind you, and something that I inflict upon myself in any case. But I am a bit more spontaneity-challenged than in the past.
fab!
good try buttercup. your spirit lives on!
What pileon?
I like this, and it's funny, your post.
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