Pay attention…

water boatman

To capture above amazing image of water-dwelling insect creating fantastic wave/interference pattern across surface tension of nearby lagoon take the following steps…

  1. invite slightly hilarious Canadian friend of Tango to stay for a night
  2. take above guest to meet loverly local friends
  3. eat dinner, drink wine, laugh a lot and conclude evening with one too many brandies (“I’m not proud of myself” says Tango)
  4. wake up feeling slightly befuddled
  5. take large macro lens, attach to big posh camera and point it at lagoon, then press big buttony thing repeatedly until above photo is accidentally taken
  6. post on internet and go ‘oooh’

Here endeth the lesson. Gnite…

I didn’t surf today. Although I did surf on Tuesday and it was good.

9 Comments

  1. Fripp
    Posted August 8, 2009 at 3:44 pm | Permalink

    -great shot!
    If all your hangover shots look like that your liver will be in danger. I have heard of the “butterfly effect” but now I’m trying to work out how those little legs created the wave that later engulfed small pacific islands?

    penfold replied:

    Thank you Fripp and welcome. Luckily for my liver my drinking days are extremely rare indeed. I’ll just need to get the hang of sober photography…

  2. Posted August 8, 2009 at 5:51 pm | Permalink

    The straight line tracking is really weird ….. anyway, and I realise this is very bad fatherly advice, but I suggest you drink some more, befuddled is obviously good ….. just sayin’ [don't let your Mother read this .... OK?]

  3. Posted August 8, 2009 at 5:58 pm | Permalink

    Shush, DP has been angling for a new camera for some time now.
    Just refreshed the page and seen your father’s advice – it’s funny but I had been going to suggest you could possibly leave out ’1 – 4′ and skip the liver damage. Mothers are such killjoys, aren’t they?

    kpx replied:

    btw, ooooooh

    penfold replied:

    I could probably just modify 3? No need to ban Canadian visitors – they’re quite nice really… x

  4. Posted August 8, 2009 at 6:03 pm | Permalink

    Ooooh …

    penfold replied:

    Aaaahhhh…

  5. Posted August 8, 2009 at 6:51 pm | Permalink

    ha muahahahhaha

    ooooh

    djbeat replied:

    are you back?
    for real?

    penfold replied:

    Nope. You never saw me here. It was just an illusion…

  6. Posted August 8, 2009 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

    the bug is saying “oooooh….” get back to drinkin’. only thing that cures what ails you at the moment….

    penfold replied:

    Wise words from a woman that knows. I fear my drunken idiot days are over. I shall have to remain a sober idiot. Er… yup.

  7. Posted August 10, 2009 at 6:01 am | Permalink

    lovely mistake. i surfed today. ;-)

    penfold replied:

    Ooh – glad somebody has their priorities right. Next year I fully intend to use more wisely – and surf lots more… x

  8. Posted August 19, 2009 at 10:35 am | Permalink

    É bom ter sentido de humor!:)

  9. Posted August 21, 2009 at 3:22 am | Permalink

    Cool shot!

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