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Sometimes you just get lucky taking photographs, and that loaded camera with live batteries and a roomy memory card in it right proximate in your pocket can take a one-handed shot that makes everyone look twice. Quick with a camera can net quite a few quick shots that turn out to be really entertaining and fun. This photo makes for some interesting reactions.
This image was of the downtown Los Angeles Santee Alley, at a corner cloth shop in the middle of the garmento shopping haven on a 90 degree Saturday in August. Huge rolls of fabric vied with bottled water as the premium items for sale. Motivated sellers whose stalls and shops were cheek by jowl with competitors selling exactly the same wares openly asked walk-in customers for yardage needs and quoted prices.
In the middle of all the this dense sidewalk traffic, an observer lurked. Perched atop probably hundreds of dollars of leatherette and suede finish rolls of goods was a bird. Pictured above was the motionless fowl who fearlessly watched us shop millimeters away. I had to take a double take when I realized the object was a bird which neither flinched nor flew away.
This would make an excellent entry into microstock portfolio categories of humor, animal life, nature, shopping, or miscellaneous. Choosing a border color wasn’t easy. The colors of the fabric rolls could be heightened in a software for editing photo images. The verbal wordplay potential for clever captions make this an excellent blog image. Countless “early bird gets the worm” puns crowd the mind.
These type of photos can inspire lots of people to enjoy using photo galleries and see potential in a photo file that could become an inspiration. And this would never be the type of formal composition that a slower photographer might prepare for this moment and not be in the right place at the right time. Not many bird photos appear in my photo gallery but this could be a star.
Not every photo encapsulates the photographer’s personality. Sometimes a risk or a step away from the general direction of the work can happen. It’s best to be the risk taker when the opportunity presents itself. With the way the ecology of many bird refuges is going, this might even be a humorous shot displaying where birds find refuge, even in urban metropolitan souks in the light of a blistering day.
I am almost 100% sure that the natural environment of a bird like this does not include naugahyde, pleather, or dyed genuine vinyl. I am not sure the bird is doing himself a favor, if the white underbelly or feathered backside of an organic bird belongs on potentially offgassing rolls of hybrid synthetics. there is a Dow chemical joke here somewhere, but I am too pleased by the image’s gentle humor and naturalism to mine it.
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