zermatt is just the shot
Back when I had a bit of cash, I used to spend a week or two every winter season in Zermatt. I'd gone out to take a few snaps and found myself in bright winter sunshine enjoying the wonder of nature (or having a spiritual experience, but, as this is B3ta, that won't cut any ice at all). I had a halfway decent camera and was making a mess of getting some winter shots but thats cos I'm not a photographer.

Just as I'm minding my business I'm asked if I will take a photo of someone with his girlfriend. No problem I say. I should have noticed then that he was very particular about how the shots were set up.

Afterward he asked if he could use my camera to get some shots of me and I said "fine". I rarely get chance to break the lens with my "great face for radio". I swear he did things with that camera that I have never been able to repeat and the speed over the controls was incredible.

After about 20mins he stopped and gave me his business card. The shots were amazing. On checking him out later, it appears he has taken portraits of Federer, Yasser Arafat, Madonna and Michael Jackson. It seemed terribly ironic that in order to get a picture of himself with his girlfriend it required the help of a random passer by.

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(gearanach #wankwankwank, Sat 7 Dec 2013, 23:22, 1 reply)

Unless it was Mr Tickle,
it's not all that ironic.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 8 Dec 2013, 19:58, closed)