Saturday, August 04, 2007

Saturday Zen Caption Contest

Yesterday's Scottish, strapped shed caption contest was plainly too easy so I have decided to follow-up with a slightly more challenging picture. Come on, Thought Experimenters, I want to hear those synapses snap. For the technically-minded, this was taken on a cloudy but bright day in Norfolk with a Nikon D200 and AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5, remote SB800 flash unit, F16, 1/200, Lens cap: On.

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  1. A shed, Scotland. With straps. (Interior)

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  2. Morning. No other bugger will be up for hours, I suppose. (Off to support the Glosters in the Twenty20 finals today. Slam bang wallop, but is it creekit?)

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  3. 'Norwich, 12 00 noon. Worst flooding since 1912 expected'

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  4. 'I can capture the glories and abominations of this world and freeze them for a hundred generations to see but without a voice I cannot warn against the careless use of me'
    Nikon D200, Aug 2007

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  5. And then this Ad Reinhart caught my eye, and I thought - why not?

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  6. Astronomers obtain first image of pre-Big-Bang universe.

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  7. Self-portrait.

    Since all phenomena are empty, the photograph would have shown the same thing had you first taken the lens cap off, thus rendering the use of a camera irrelevant. The true nature of Zen photography is no-camera, or "What is a photograph taken without a camera?"

    A think I feel an attack of satori coming on. Help!

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  8. The last image to pass through the eyes of Schrodinger's cat.

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  9. New Labour/Conservatism/World Order: The future's bright. The future's ours.

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  10. 'I wonder if anyone'll just think 'oh dear, Appleyard's taking the piss again'' thought Bryan, quickly adding 'zen' into the title in a desperate hope that they wouldn't

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  11. The new white is unveiled at the beginning of British fashion week.

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  12. My wife's just interrupted her blogging on a gardening site (trying to find a cure for clematis wilt and wondering if the solution might help me) to ask if my earlier statement, which I thought was quite profound, is really inspired by Zen. She thought what I'd said was crap, but it sounded as close to nature as you can get trying to attribute words to a chunk of plastic and a piece of glass. I said "haven't a clue. The only time I tried Zen meditation I got cramp." It's a slow afternoon here.

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  13. Where's the prodigious Ian Russell today? I didn't think I would say this but I really miss him!

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  14. "I guess I'll take it in this color," said the customer to the Model T salesman.

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    I did it all myself. There are no credits.

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    Oh this is just great! Where the hell are my night vision googles?

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  15. Bryan took this. Bryan isn't happy. He bought a Nikon D200. He knows that if he'd bought a Skipon E300 the lens cap would have sensed he was about to take a picture, flipped off and rolled into his pocket - he'd have a great picture to show his friends. But all Bryan has is this, and now he uses one of these.
    Don't be a Bryan, skip on with a Skipon!


    Whimsical synapses snapped.

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