Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Perils of a Photographer

Ever since my Canon S90 arrived on my doorstep, I've lugged it around for almost everything I do, thus learning the joys of snapping weird stuff whenever I feel like it. Of course, even a DSLR wouldn't churn out good photos if the photographer didn't go the extra length to obtain the results themselves, so I've gotten into a few prickly situations with my subjects, most notably..

These damn buggers crawling around a tree between Block C and Block D >_> I was waiting for Puey Ru to finish her Wushu practice and Yao Jia pointed out this bloody ant-infested tree XD Since it's a pain to focus with full zoom and I was too lazy to do it manually, I had to get really close to the buggers and use the flash. After the first few shots, I felt a stinging pain on my left middle finger and found one of the blasted creatures sinking its teeth into my flesh =__=;; Seems that my wrist strap was in contact with the ground and those ants used it as a bridge to my fat meat. I still have a huge lump on my middle finger of all places. Of course, my course of action after being bitten was to flip off the ants with said injured digit LOL

Also, it's quite saddening when the best photo in the album currently is one taken by my friend, not myself D: Oh the humiliation..

Yeah this doesn't sound like a proper post. I blame my deflated writing skills on the crappy time I've been having since returning to university. With so many administrative problems, timetable clashes and clueless lecturers, it hardly feels like I've actually learned something these past few weeks *hangs self*