Cone

[Shortsighted]

 While pursuing my hobby of strenuous resting on a park bench after pushing my dad around in his transport chair, I took a moment, merely an insignificant interval really, to observe a number of small conifer cones spread out before me. That discovery reminded me that I know next to nothing about cones beyond those I sometimes needed to don while surveying the corner of the classroom in grade school. Even then, I pretended that I was the 7^th Wizard of Gormogon. I figured, and rightly so in my opinion, that if you are going to be bad, then you might as well be really bad.
 
 
 I immediately realized that a moment would not do justice to this observation. The more I thought about those cones the more I inched away from the seat of the bench with no fear of splinter injury and with those tiny increments of departure that signify either dementia, impending mischief, or just an imitation of liftoff by a woefully under-powered cargo plane. I had my camera attached to the transport chair so there was no reason that I couldn’t use it to immortalize one of those tiny cones and then maybe try to identify it at some later date. All I had with me was my 300mm lens so I relocated to the other side of the playground and hit the deck. That was my imitation of a woefully under-power cargo plane landing. Putting my camera on the ground would stabilize it well enough to crank the f-stop all the way down and increase my depth-of-field. Once on solid ground the slow shutter speed was a mute consideration. I don’t know why I selected this particular cone. It just spoke to me.



 
 

[Charline]

I bet it was a nice conversation! Good still life.

[Shortsighted]

Actually Charline, it didn't disclose a whole lot ... it was more a cone of silence. Still, a great deal can be communicated through silence, as evidenced by the silence of this board's elusive members concerning ... well, about everything, really.

[Charline]

Haha, you know the best!!


Just bought a tennis elbow brace. Now I am going to give it a test!