I got this for a Fin

It was actually the foot of the fisherman

I was trying to photograph.

I became distracted by the quiet desperation

reflected in the face of the fish.

His helplessness was tugging at my heart.

At that moment I knew I was hooked.

Photo by: D. Black

The Vast Ocean

just to his right, billions upon billions of stars over his head, cloud formations, aircraft and this guy stops to photograph a stick.

Dear stranger,  I mean no disrespect to you or your

sense of awareness.  Perhaps it was a unique stick.

Maybe it had once been fetched by your dog Scooter,

who unfortunately passed away last year.  It's possible,

I guess, that seeing that stick brought up old, painful memories.

But then again, maybe he wouldn't have passed away if you had

remembered to feed him.  Maybe he outgrew his little

puppy collar but you never paid attention and poor 

Scooter kept turning purple from lack of oxygen.

Geez... What's the matter with you?

Diagnosis

Acute hiccups.

3 days

$42,000.00

(still got 'm)

What?

Crime Scene

Here's what we know so far;

There is a tray of cookies missing from the kitchen.

The eyewitness tells us the perp is approx. 80 years of age.

Their walker was leaning to the left.

Mark the tennis ball as exhibit A.

OK, who came up with this one?

The Gallery

Upon the stately walls my art

in muted tones of sight and sound

shall never really have it's start

with quiet, paunchy guards around

Stanchions holding velvet ropes

keeping sticky hands away

a distance, every artist hopes

holds the random sneeze at bay

Far removed my brushes rest

my pallet cleansed of beauties art

while blades and daggers tensiel test

the hardness of the critic's heart.

You'd think...

a pirate's favorite letter would be  RRRRRRR

but it's not.

It's the C

Focus

 

It takes great concentration, skill and agility

to accomplish something like this.

Years of practice go into holding the camera

perfectly still while balancing yourself

at just the right height, and not

allowing yourself to become distracted

by the incoming tide.