Did you guys hear about the guy who set himself on fire in UW's Red Square recently? I thought about that scene for at least two days just imagining looking over and seeing a human go up in flames. I immediately thought of the famous photo by Malcolm Browne of a Buddhist monk who set himself on fire in Saigon during Vietnam.
My girlfriend, doesn't always like the fact that I take my camera EVERYWHERE. I told her about this and said, "Babe, this is the reason I take it with me everywhere." I'm really surprised that in this digital age with cameras everywhere, nobody caught that on "film."
Just a few weeks ago I was working(I am a delivery driver out on whidbey island) and I came around a bend to see a Navy chopper flying low with a line hanging down from the chopper. I pulled my truck over and within seconds I had my camera out capturing the scene. A couple minutes later the chopper ascended and revealed two guys dangling strapped at the bottom of the line. The helicopter flew away and I had some neat "spot" news.
From what I know it was a training excersise they were doing at Lake Hancock(an old lake they used for target practice). So as much as it may annoy some people or be an inconvenience to me to haul it everywhere It's just part of the curse.
-Jefferson
Photo Copyright Jefferson L. Morriss 2008
1 comment:
I just got a little point and shoot Canon that I have been trying to keep with me as much as possible.
Kudos to you for doing it already.
Keeping a camera ready is just another way of recording your individual human history. It's no different then the ancient peoples that would paint events on the stone walls of their caves. Capturing history is just a part of our DNA.
Next time your girlfriend gives you shit just tell her that you can't deny your genetic predisposition to create art that imitates life.
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