evil green
We finally got started on our daily photo rambling. The idea is to take a new image at least once a day and blog about it here. Of course, that’s the idea! And well the reality will probably be something completely different!
The first entry was shot today by Rene. He used the stand-in technique for macro when you don’t have a macro handy: an inverted 50mm wide open. That’s right, he just took the lens off, turned it around and hand held it over the camera opening. The DOF was crazy small here but he managed to shoot this killer image of a green WAX giraffe and her baby. You can’t see the baby in the picture, just the mom’s face. And yes, you read correctly, I did write a ‘green wax giraffe’. This was one of those overpriced zoo gifts that they con you into buying. When we went to the Miami zoo for Ali’s birthday, we were conned into handing over not one, not two, and no, not three, but FIVE dollars for this POS! It’s made on the spot with this weird machine that kind of looks like the old school fortune teller machines at the fairs. But instead of the creepy he/she fortune teller spitting out a generic fortune, the wheels grind and twist out this creepy green mama giraffe and her baby.
So Ali LOVES this thing AND I have the distinct pleasure of having it reside in my car. More precisely, in the side pocket of the door, along with all the other ton of junk she’s accumulated and can’t leave home without. In the picture, the giraffe has a kind of evil look about it. Hmmmm. I can’t help but wonder if that’s just a bit of Rene seeping into the portrait. He seems to have that gift….. Those cool disco-looking lights in the back are actually light reflections coming off a bottle of Grolsch. I LOVE this shot…it’s just cool…
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