Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Fisheye Shrimp.


Shrimp Fisheye, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

Having bought myself a Nikkor 10.5mm f2.8 fisheye lens on Ebay in the week, I could hardly wait to clamp it on to my S5 and take some photos of the boat that made it look like a big white banana.
A strange compulsion, but a relatively harmless one. And frankly one that I have now exorcised from my psyche, so this may well be the first and the last photograph taken of an Orkney Longliner that makes it look like the new Orkney Clinically Obeseliner floating on a very small oval lake.
Meanwhile, a sturdy looking Colvic 20 has appeared at the marina on brokerage and is providing Shrimp with some competition in the 'my boat could ride out rough weather at sea better than yours' dialogue that I have never had with any of the nearby Freeman and Norman owners.
I like to think that the two boats acknowledged each other in a salty seadog 'ahoy there shipmate' kind of way as they passed, but then, I appear to live in a world where inanimate objects communicate with each other, boats look like bananas and seaworthiness means more than panoramic windows.
I don't know what any of that means either, but I'll have you know that I wrote it without the assistance of a single classified substance.

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