#157: The Aftermath
What to do when a friend from the Navy has a few days’ leave and comes and visits? Why, drag him out to a 365 shoot, of course!
We drove out to this dirt road I’d found before while exploring the town of Waldo. You can only drive so far, then you have to park and walk, which is what we did. I hadn’t see the lonely tree before, but I knew it was picture gold if I could just find the right angle.
The sun was to the right of the tree, which made the clearing to the left useless. So I decided to set up my tripod and camera behind the tree, keeping the sun to the right of both the camera and the tree.
There were brambles and weeds a few feet high back there, but I waded in with my open-toed sandals. I had just about gotten the tripod pushed down far enough into the detritus when I felt a sting. And another, and another.
I looked down and my right foot was covered with ants. I love ants, but I don’t like them biting me. I jumped out (leaving my camera where it was, actually) and managed to get all but a few stragglers off within seconds. Stephen helped we swipe away the ones I couldn’t see, and he used his 6′3″ frame to reach over and get the camera to avoid the ants.
Three nights later, I was still fighting the urge to scratch my ankle, which by then had scabbed over from the places I’d scratched so hard they bled. But hey, the picture’s alright, right?
November 7th, 200712:52 pm at
Keitha, the pic is very expressive and worth the trouble. Get on shooting! Best, Bernd