Good Deeds, that can come back to bite you.
On my trip around da world, I constantly came across people posing for pics. You know the type, hell you might even be one of them. A family, a couple, lovers etc.. climb up a hill, pose in front of a castle or great scene, though one of the group peels off to take the pic of the rest and misses out of the group photo.
I'm a keen watcher of people, in these positions. I'm not studying people, though I look at how people react in situations. When I see something like this unfold, I usually speak up and suggest that I take the pic for that group or couple. Crack a joke about taking the camera and running or charge 20 pounds or when ever currency is the most expensive in that region.
My story starts in scotland, edinburgh. Near holyrood castle, on the large hill in the middle of that area that overlooks most of the city. Its a hell of a climb, ok you can take the easier route up. There are some tougher ways to do it. So, yes I took the tough way up and was quite buggered. I'd been up there most of the day, snapping pics left and right of the city and surround areas and just soaking it all in.
I begin to notice families and people taking pics of each other. But wat triggered me to react was this small family. A father, mother and their daughter. They had hiked up the large hill, Went to pose for the family pic, they looked around, for wat ever reason the father just took a pic of the mother and his daughter. I moved forward and suggested that the pic would be hell of a lot better with him in it as well. I then suggested for a small fee or 50 pounds It would be no problem. We all had a laugh and I took the pic for them. Which sorta made their day. After the deed was done, I said hey, us aussies like to help out once in awhile. Enjoy the view and picture.
Long story short, I ended up doing this for a few more families, girls, guys, couples etc.. But I remember the last pic I took that day. These 3-4 american girls studying at the local campus, had climb the hill and wanted to take pics. instead of having a group photo, one was going to take the pic. So I offered to get them all in a group photo and record their journey. It was a very nice expensive nikon digital camera, a little bit of bling, bling. I took the pic, we had a laugh, exchanged tales of travel, I was an aussie, they were american etc, etc.. I handed back her camera and half turning said have you got it? She said yes I have and I let go of the camera.. The next thing I heard was this very expensive camera landing on the many rocks around our feet. I pulled a funny face and just realized it went ba-da-boom. A little bit shocked, she explained she had it, but dropped it. From then on, I was always a little bit wary of offering to take pics. Just in case you met someone not so forgiving if the same thing happen. But you gotta do what you gotta do..
So, the next person camera I took the pic and just threw it off cliff.. what? Ok, I am just joking..
Dean.
I'm a keen watcher of people, in these positions. I'm not studying people, though I look at how people react in situations. When I see something like this unfold, I usually speak up and suggest that I take the pic for that group or couple. Crack a joke about taking the camera and running or charge 20 pounds or when ever currency is the most expensive in that region.
My story starts in scotland, edinburgh. Near holyrood castle, on the large hill in the middle of that area that overlooks most of the city. Its a hell of a climb, ok you can take the easier route up. There are some tougher ways to do it. So, yes I took the tough way up and was quite buggered. I'd been up there most of the day, snapping pics left and right of the city and surround areas and just soaking it all in.
I begin to notice families and people taking pics of each other. But wat triggered me to react was this small family. A father, mother and their daughter. They had hiked up the large hill, Went to pose for the family pic, they looked around, for wat ever reason the father just took a pic of the mother and his daughter. I moved forward and suggested that the pic would be hell of a lot better with him in it as well. I then suggested for a small fee or 50 pounds It would be no problem. We all had a laugh and I took the pic for them. Which sorta made their day. After the deed was done, I said hey, us aussies like to help out once in awhile. Enjoy the view and picture.
Long story short, I ended up doing this for a few more families, girls, guys, couples etc.. But I remember the last pic I took that day. These 3-4 american girls studying at the local campus, had climb the hill and wanted to take pics. instead of having a group photo, one was going to take the pic. So I offered to get them all in a group photo and record their journey. It was a very nice expensive nikon digital camera, a little bit of bling, bling. I took the pic, we had a laugh, exchanged tales of travel, I was an aussie, they were american etc, etc.. I handed back her camera and half turning said have you got it? She said yes I have and I let go of the camera.. The next thing I heard was this very expensive camera landing on the many rocks around our feet. I pulled a funny face and just realized it went ba-da-boom. A little bit shocked, she explained she had it, but dropped it. From then on, I was always a little bit wary of offering to take pics. Just in case you met someone not so forgiving if the same thing happen. But you gotta do what you gotta do..
So, the next person camera I took the pic and just threw it off cliff.. what? Ok, I am just joking..
Dean.
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