I'd prefer film cameras to digital, if I had much choice. but haste is
the word o'th' day
KS
On 21/11/2007, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Snapping the Young with an Old Camera
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> If lately all your snappingıs
> been with cell-phone, taking up
> the old camera film!
> makes for wasteful costly trouble.
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> Forgetting to fiddle with the lens focus
> ensures whatever you point it at
> will come out blurred. And that,
> after youıve paid the camera shop.
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> But part way through the childrenıs party
> the routine reasserts itself;
> from now on any blurred images
> will be the kidsı in action.
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> Action they provide: Michael,
> at seven, constantly forgets that
> because itıs his party he has
> hostly duties beside his Mum,
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> and darts off with his great mate Bill
> to raid the party food table
> while the docile others form a ring,
> perform old rituals hand in hand,
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> and paired as three-legged runners
> hobble, laugh, and stumble on the turf.
> Several great snaps in all that.
> And in the great wide trees overhead,
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> here in the English-style Botanics
> of this old goldfields town,
> some in full blossom, like this,
> said to be an Indian bean tree.
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> Crouched in the lakeside arbour
> Iıve sliced the watermelon;
> moist dust-motes are dropping on the bowl
> last nightıs thunderstorm slightly relieved
>
> the drought; arbour and gardens
> are still moist. Midmorning sunshine
> begins park-wide evaporation,
> dappling every snappable vista.
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> Rather than guard the fruit from birds,
> Iıll go stand by the tethered pup,
> who yearns towards the childrenıs games
> so vigorously heıs tramped his paws
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> deep in the rose-plotıs black mulch.
> She, whose dog it is, snaps on,
> raids my pockets for more film,
> sends off me and dog to guard the cake.
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> Itıs on the furthest table, vulnerable to
> birds and children. Here they come at last,
> clamouring for the feasting. Share the cordial,
> light the candles, sing the song.
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> 21 November 2007
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> Max Richards
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> Castlemaine, Vic./Doncaster, Vic.
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