Mad Times

Our mayor saw me taking this picture and came over to see what on earth I was doing taking a picture of the ground in the middle of a busy intersection.

This is probably the single most complex lost glove photo I’ve ever taken. It was too dark to get anything hand-held that didn’t make the background all zig-zaggy, so I put the camera on my little folding tripod that I carry everywhere and hardly ever use. The framing I wanted didn’t put the glove in the focus sweet spot so I had to tilt the camera and tripod down to get a focus lock then put it back with the button half-pressed before doing the full press to take the picture. But it was too dark to get a focus lock so with my other hand I shone my green Inova LED flashlight on the glove while doing the half-press. Clicking the full press was enough to blur the background too, so I set the self timer to make it wait before snapping the final picture. And I used the night scene mode to get a long exposure of the background. Whee!

My bike is actually right in the center of this shot, but I cleverly camouflaged it by strapping our Christmas tree to it before taking the picture.

At Gilman Village outside Lilypad Books

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