I have made a discovery.Paying a lot of money for a good camera doesn't mean you automatically become the new David Bailey.
Just under two years ago I bought myself a whizz bang digital camera. I take it with me wherever I go looking for good photo opportunities. Take this morning for example.
I was waiting at a bus stop having a quiet cigarette, when I noticed these beautiful bottle-brush bushes. Not only did I see them but in my minds eye, I saw them first through a viewfinder and then of course, on the pages of a glossy and expensive magazine in a doctors waiting room.
Press, press, press.
In all I took about 25 pictures of these bushes. I was most impressed with my eye for a good picture. Then I heard a rustling in the bushes, turned around and saw a beautifully coloured Lorikeet hanging upside down from one of the flowers.
Press, press, press. Another 20 or so pictures.
When I returned home I shoved the memory thingy into the little slot in the front of the PC, downloaded and eagerly opened the works of art I had created.
I could have sworn there wasn't a tin fence or line of garbage bins around when I took the pics. And I am positive I had all the right settings. Yet out of all the pictures I took, only two were fairly acceptable. Even then they look nothing like I visualised when I had the camera in my hand!
The photograph that adorns this post may look O.K. (if you click on the full size version, it looks a bit better), but what you are seeing is only about 10 per cent of the original photograph!
I know where I went wrong. I didn't pay enough for the camera. That's it!
Till tomorrow, wherever you may be - be safe!
Oh yes, if I am not here - it will be because I am on a mission from God!
