turp77 Loc: Connecticut, Plainfield

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I am usually paying too much attention to what I'm photographing and the associated settings, etc. to notice much of anything besides that.

However, if I was a passerby and noticed someone picking at a road kill with a pair of chopstick, I'd find that attention-getting. Just imagining the scene caused me to chuckle.
--Bob

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Heck, I'd take a photo of it!

Call me weird, but sometimes when I'm photographing with a group I get a kick out of taking photographs of the things other photographers do, the lengths they go, to "get the shot"...

"Photographers Gone Wild"




I long ago learned to ignore folks giving me weird looks when I'm taking photos.

Maybe one of my weirdest experiences was when I was set up in a local park with a 500mm lens and camera on a tripod photographing birds.... Someone strolling by stopped to ask, "Whatcha doin'? Taking pitchers?"

I was tempted to respond, "NO, can't you see I'm baking a pie! And thanks for scaring away the bird I've been trying to get close to for the last two hours!" But instead I just smiled and nodded.

Okay, maybe that's not a "weird look"... but it certainly was a strange encounter!

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Alan, I always have to fight the smartass reply when someone asks about the obvious. I'm under a focusing cloth, standing behind a 4x5 view camera and someone will undoubtedly ask, " are you photographing something"? I realize some people have difficulty starting a conversation. Personally, I really don't pay much attention to that sort of thing. I'm aware of my surroundings, but only to the point of imminent danger, not casual conversation.
--Bob

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

As a veterinarian, I have a number of good friends who are parasitologists. a common sentiment among them: “Don’t disparage dung; it’s bread and butter to me!”

Dave

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Hi, Bob,

My two responses back when I was using my old 5x7 view camera:

“No, just adding to my collection of stupid questions!”
or
“No, I’m meditating on the meaning of life!”

O.K. I made that up...didn’t actually do that...

BUT I WISH I HAD!

Dave

EdR Loc: Gig Harbor, WA

I once was flat on the ground taking shots of 🍄 mushrooms. It embarrassed my wife who asked what will people think? At that moment a Park Ranger walked up and said, “Oh taking pictures of mushrooms.

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

Para______ was never ,except of insects, of much interest to me. BUT I had a friend who was an Ag. Dept vet tech.he made one of things he found doing post mortems over twenty years. OMG,has to be seen to believe. BIZARRE.

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

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Good for you, Bill ;-) === Made me chuckle.

Might I say - That is a new take on the "Bug-Out" term.

Do what you like, and to hell, with the looks you get from others. Hey! They don't like it === Pick up some of the dung and throw it at them.

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newtoyou Loc: Eastport

With the chopsticks!