Derby Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (Hmm. While I was writing this, there was a zzzZZZIIIP*THUD*, the
> > rather distinctive sound of a two-car collision on a rain-slick
> > street. The police showed up a lot more quickly than any of the
> > other times I've called 911. Both drivers are ambulatory, *whew*.
>
> Sounds like a photo op to me, Glenn.
Oh, aye, as soon as I got of the phone I grabbed the (non-Pentax,
point-and-shoot) digital camera so as to blog it, but it wasn't
a really photogenic enough angle from my window to warrant trying
to make art from ... given the amount of film I've already burned
on similar shots since moving to Baltimore, and the certainty that
more opportunities will crop up soon enough (just like chances to
shoot firefighters in action within walking distance of my house,
especially since the winter fire season is about to start).
(Some of the old rolls I've scanned recently were from the time
when I could watch -- and photograph -- drug deals being transacted,
from my windows, every day of the week except Saturday (when the
Seventh Day Adventist church on the corner was busy) ... fortunately
I haven't had any photo-ops like _that_ in several years. I do
wonder how long after the fact it'll seem safe to post those photos
as slice-of-life-in-the-city images without fearing that the drug
dealers in the pictures will seek me out to express umbrage.)
Now the time a few years ago when one of the cars from a collision
got cut in half by a tree (as in, they took that one car away on two
different trucks), conveniently in daylight for ease of photographing,
that one I shot a lot of frames of.
I did grab whichever body has the 100-300 zoom on it at the moment
(uh, the Program Plus, I think) to use as a telescope to try to see
whether one of the vehicles struck a house or landed just short of
it, but I'm going to have to put on clothes and go out on the sidewalk
to be able to tell for sure.
But one thing for sure about living in Baltimore is that there's an
abundance of photo-ops, many of them painful -- physically, fiscally,
or both -- for the subjects. (OTOH, we also get some really dramatic
_skies_ here, too.)
Ah, the first wrecker has arrived; if the pull the SUV away first,
I'll have to go see whether the Jeep is in a particularly interesting
position with the SUV out of the way... (So maybe I'll burn some
film after all, or maybe not.) I _should_ try to get to sleep.
-- Glenn
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