Self Referential

DSC08276, originally uploaded by QuakkauQ.

Hi internets. Just writing to introduce you to the newest "moderator" for the Camera Toss Group on flickr.

Jens Ludwig aka QuakkauQ, hailing from Germany, has been a long time member and you've seen his excellent images all over this blog. Now he's joined David Hull aka mtnrockdhh to help keep the photo pool on topic and help ease new members into the idea of Camera Tossing.

The photo in this post was created by Jens and shared with the group yesterday. Very fitting for an introduction post I thought.

Jens also maintains his own site/domain about camera tossing, www.cameratossing.de, where he posts some of his photos and experiments, news, yet ANOTHER Camera Tossing, HOWTO, and hosts an invited 'friend's gallery' for other camera tossers he knows well.

Jens is also the instigator of a collaborative project we are introducing to the community. I'll post more on that topic very soon. ;-)

JPG Magazine (Toss It?)

I guess one of the behaviors of the new genre of subscriber/reader driven content and publishing in the magazine industry is the inevitability of covering the same topic more than once. ;-)



JPG Magazine, which did a story (including interviews) on Camera Tossing in it's formative youth (Issue 6), has pushed another Camera Toss article amusingly titled Get Fresh With Us: "Toss Your Camera" in Issue 16. Apparently JPG thinks seconds are fresher than firsts? This one however takes the form of a very brief photo challenge posed to it's readers/photographers online, and a selection of voted/edited picks of the result. Basically it's the magazine version of my "Pool Picks" postings except with JPG contributers being the "pool", and without really providing any instructive context, history, or origins for the readers and contributors. Ironically there was a user contributed howto article on the subject linked from the challenge pages, but all that content was left unpublished in the printed article.

In it's original posted form, their challenge didn't even get the concept/definition of a Camera Toss correct. I mean really folks, it's not that complicated. A couple of senior members in our community took it upon themselves to get them to at least honor the original concept and change the challenge criteria. Viewing the incoming submissions it became clear that many of their contributors were also missing the point, so a handful of our 5,000+ community members took it upon themselves to submit high quality camera tosses in an effort to notch up the presentation of the concept. Even still, the final published selection included some that were obviously not a thrown camera. But, almost all who submitted from our community made the published version. Congrats to them and way to show solidarity, something this labor union member/advocate certainly appreciates! ;-)



(Left: by David Hull, Right: by Christian Kinzler, Lower: by Marce Garal)

Please don't read this post as a criticism of the photos/photographers actually published. Most were indeed camera tosses and many quite interesting to look at. I just feel the methodology for coming up with the content in the first place left a little bit to be desired in the way of substance and professionalism.

Many JPG articles were great back in the days before they restructured, and some of them continue to be quite good, but I came away from this feeling like they just needed some space filler? Which, in itself is fine, but if you wish to showcase a technique, you should either give some great instructions or display some top quality work (ideally both?). Why else would you publish it, unless, perhaps your only aim is to make your own contributors (a.k.a. paying subscribers) feel good about themselves?

So three cheers to Derek and Heather for honoring our little niche of the photography universe with their original article, instructions, and interviews! (View online here) This second time around? Not so much.

As for the current editorial staff of JPG Magazine. If you wish to produce "fresh" content. Figure out a way to get your article/theme contributors to do their homework. A little tried and true journalism wouldn't hurt either. I'm sure you would have had an amazing spread if you popped into our forums and solicited the community to contribute (exactly what was done for the Issue 6 article).

How's that for "getting fresh with you"? ;-) Maybe by fresh you didn't mean "snarky". Oh well. ;-)

Links Related to this Posting:
Photo Challenge: Camera Toss (and all submissions)
Photo Challenge: Camera Toss (published contact-sheet)
JPG Magazine Issue 16
Unpublished JPG user contributed HOWTO
JPG Magazine Issue 6 Article (instructions, interviews, commentary)
Camera Toss Group on Flickr

What is a dollar worth?

These days, the US Dollar isn't really worth that much. I am not even sure you can get most newspapers for under a dollar. My last trip to the laundry mat certainly didn't qualify. And I'll DEFINITELY notice it during the pending currency conversions to the Euro and the Pound.

But the difference of a dollar is another story entirely.

WOMWorld was trying to send me my 'Urbanista Kit' which included spare Nokia N82s, batteries, rapid-charger, keyboard, SIMS, and other goodies for the upcoming trip. I got a call day before yesterday from FedEx Trade Network that it was stuck in US Customs due to missing paperwork. With two days before my departure date there was quite a scramble to fax documents and make corrections.

One of those items of paperwork I was responsible for. This was a piece of red tape, providing my Tax ID or Social Security number, and only required when the total value of the international shipment is 2000.00 USD or greater.

Guess what value WOMWorld had declared my package. 2000.00 dollars exactly. Next time, when dealing with governments and bureaucracy... don't round up, UNROUND DOWN, 1999.00 and we would have been smooth sailing!

However, I'm happy to report the package did make it this morning, with 24 hours to spare. ;-)

chaos makes the world go round...

Fone frow 1, originally uploaded by birdlouise.

As demonstrated by Bird Louise with this camera toss photograph posted to our community gallery on flickr. Interestingly the distortion achieved with this simple interaction of the sensor and motion resembles the very popular digital transform manipulation referred to as micro planets, typically achieved with panoramic techniques and coordinate re-mappings. But seen here produced entirely in camera!

But boy is the sentiment accurate. Just under 3 days before my departure to Europe on the Nokia Urbanista Diaries project and today I was informed by FedEx that my necessary hardware gear (N82 model phones, SIMs, etc etc) being shipped from London is now stuck in US Customs due to paperwork errors. What else could go wrong? Well we have yet to reconcile the nature of a photo license agreement with Nokia for the project! Hmmm what else. Ohh the fact I don't own a credit card thusly no Hotel accommodations beyond the first city have been made. I suppose all the disorder is appropriate for someone who actively encourages people to embrace a little more chaos in their image and art-making. Irony can be a headache sometimes.

Wish me luck. Shortly I will be posting some tools beyond the interface Nokia provides for keeping up with me on the journey, now obviously destined to be brimming with chaotic forces.

It's a small world...

I am constantly shocked by our shrinking world, technology and communication techniques being much responsible for this shrinking, but also the ease at which we can just hop around the world such as this upcoming trip for the Nokia Urbanista Diaries. But you know what, it was smaller than I thought!

This recently came to my attention via a close friend Jason, who enjoys using his academic login to search for random things in Google Scholar. Sitting at the cafe he thought it would be fun to search for "Camera Toss" to see if there have been any mentions of it in academic literature.

There had, exactly one relevant entry. If things keep up there will surely be more but it's WHO was responsible for the publication of that ONE, and how random and coincidental it seemed that really caused me to sit back and marvel at the way these things pan out.

The mention came in the form of a documented interview response in an academic research paper/thesis on journaling and mobile devices. The interviewee was John Braine, a fellow candidate for a degree in Design and Multimedia Systems at Trinity College, Dublin.

Here's the excerpt:

Question: 10) What is the most creative or most innovative use of a mobile device that you have done or seen or heard of someone else doing?
Answer: Camera tossing!

The paper was entitled Moleskine to Mobile, How Creative Professionals are Using Their Mobile Phones, written in 05/06 by none other than JENIFER HANEN. Who's that? Well she also goes by Ms. Jen, and I know her only as a fellow invited participant of the Urbanista Diaries, the one who I'll in fact be meeting in person in Vienna, Austria... as her journey ends and mine begins! Whacky! Small world indeed! I'm not even sure if Jenifer realized the connection?


One organization however, has been performing "ultimate camera tosses" long before this blog , and that would be NASA. The small world visual at the beginning of this post was in fact just such a toss, combined footage of the earth as seen from the Mercury Messenger Probe as it performed an earth fly-by on August 2nd, 2005.

Approximately two weeks ago, Messanger made a historic fly-by of the dark side of Mercury, never before observed by humans. This image was taken on it's approach to Mercury.



I look forward to it's continued journey and the beginning of a year long orbit around Mercury which begins March 8th 2011. Coincidentally, 3 years to the day of the conclusion of my Urbanista trip!

Food for Thought (or Art)...

I choose the inputs to the process but I don't choose the combinations, they happen randomly. So that's a different idea for what an artist does. It's also a different idea therefore for what a viewer does. If the viewer is aware that their experience of the thing is unique and not necessarily the same as the artist's experience, I think that puts them in a different position as well.
---Brian Eno

Glad to have Brian Eno as a spokesman for Camera Toss. Just kidding of course... but substitute "viewer" for "participant" in that paragraph and he might as well have been! Either his the words perfectly describe part of the way I feel about all this.

Here's a camera toss by Right Brain where the inputs are some deck chairs and a porch facade

Day Toss, originally uploaded by Right Brain.

Community is Everything

A confluence of events has caused me to reflect on the idea of "community stewardship". As I posted yesterday, JPG Magazine, which had it's roots as a entirely community driven publication... decided to re-write it's history from the top down in hopes, one can only imagine, to appeal to a broader commercial market. This, among other factors, triggered the departure of the two founders, Derek and Heather. When this news broke, the community reacted strongly in support of the founders, whom many have known personally via interviews and communication since JPG's inception (including myself).

Currently on flickr, a search for the tag "jpgmag" or "jpgmagazine" reveals pages and pages of screenshots exactly like the one I posted yesterday. Community members saying their goodbyes to the publication and deleting accounts. I don't think this will destroy JPG magazine, but it will certainly feel the aftershocks.



Matthew Haughey of metafilter also chimed in with his own list of lessons learned about managing online communities with his posting Some Community Tips for 2007 - Seven tips on how to run a successful community. No doubt in response to other current events such as the digg.com user revolt and his own experiences with Wikipedia.org.

The amusing thing, is that the destruction of one community in an abrupt fashion, usually spawns new communities, that are bonded by this same disruption. For example, I was just been invited to the new flickr group I Deleted My JPG Account today. And yet another group, that seems to have similar goals to JPG in the early days. Utata, another amazing flickr based community even has an annual project coming up that involves a glossy printed zine, created entirely by the membership, mostly FOR the membership.

Camera Toss, which I created on a whim initially, was never an intentional community, but it appears to have become one by sheer virtue of the process. It has a narrow scope and we don't have a ton of discussion or activities compared to JPG or Utata (for example), but that doesn't stop the members from being quite tightly knit. I was shocked this week, by an event that demonstrated this.

Photography and photographers tend to be fairly competitive in nature (a generalization), not by any fault of their own, it's a terribly cut-throat industry. If multiple photographers were contacted for one magazine story, as members of the camera toss community just were, one would expect an individualized approach, and a jockeying for position within that article so to speak. But to my surprise, people wanted to discuss their contributions openly and almost everyone also wrote me a private email to mention they had been contacted and asked for my input and advice. There was even a suggestion of crafting our interview responses in collaboration, which made me laugh (and we avoided), because that is exactly the opposite of what a reporter talking to multiple people is hoping to get. Wow!

If you are curious about which publication, Jonathan, one of the community members contacted, posted something to his blog about it.

I can only hope that I have done well as a community steward with Camera Tossing. My efforts to include anyone and everyone who wants to participate, even in Art Museum Exhibitions, seems to have set a good example and mood of sharing within the community.

Camera Toss, is about, above all: shared inspiration, creating, community, collaboration, and having fun!

correction made: Matthew Haughey started MetaFilter.com, not wikipedia.org as I had originally cited due to misreading a link on his about page, which was actually linking to his entry on wikipedia. How embarassing... one of my first wordy blog postings and I mess it up. ;-)

Goodbye JPG Magazine

Goodbye JPG Magazine, originally uploaded by clickykbd.

If there is one lesson in community driven publishing by corporate interests... that is that you not act in ways to upset the community.

A nice magazine, but I was there for the community. Reasons for this decision:

powazek.com/posts/534
www.hchamp.com/other/archives/001173.html
on metafilter too

After a long hiatus...

It is about time I devote some more attention to this blog... although really really inactive of late... that hasn't stopped all the camera tossing from proceeding at a steady clip.

The reason for the inactivity is I've been distracted by work, life, and traditional photography for a while. Been shooting alot of b&w film myself and got my own daily photo-blog up and running for sharing some of it. I'm even on the verge of purchasing a darkroom setup I found on craigslist last week. But don't fear... I haven't forsaken the art of throwing my cheaper cameras... and have reason to do so again. It has been many months for me personally but you should see some new ones soon.

I have a few announcements i'll be posting to this blog soon, and I should have some new photo pool pics up by the end of the day. Thank you everyone who has commented inquiring as to the inactivity... I'm still here... and Camera Toss, as a concept, is alive and well!

But as with any post... here's an image from the photo pool to wet your appetite. A little bit of theory too... as we've been discussing the effect of focal plane shutter distortion as exhibited by CCD and CMOS cameras that operate without a physical shutter. Perhaps a new term is called for? I suggest "Focal Plane Sensor Distortion", because if you pay attention it is not quite as simple as the slit-scan shutter induced phenomenon. Each pixel is recorded individually in time, not a slit or row at a time. We've constantly seen examples of the effect due to the extreme motion involved in a thrown camera. I've since become fascinated with it and am planning my own explorations of it. Food for thought, and experimentation!



DSC00564
Originally uploaded by tossthecam.

And Now For Something Completely Different

Installment 1


Originally uploaded by nicolai_g

I've been thinking of starting a recurring blog/thread topic on the evolution of camera tossing... ongoing of course. Camera Toss as we know it is over a year old now and it actually has had some noticable evolutions. We've seen lots of things turn up that register as "new" yet still within the theme of this group over the last year.

So for our first installment, here's one that showed up in the pool. Nicolai's and one other are the first examples I encountered of folks trying Pin-hole camera tossing. Pinholes tend to be long exposure by default... but capturing something during a thrown pinhole can be quite tricky.

In the case of the photo above... the SUN was the only light source bright enough to register during a "multiple toss multiple catch" experiment. Besides a pinhole (flickr group), it also happened to be cross-processed (flickr group) on expired (flickr group) 120 medium format (flickr group) film (a flickr group). (Yes, there is a flickr-group for nearly everything if you couldn't tell).

And an earlier example... a match box pin-hole camera, tossed on Worldwide Pinhole Day by alspix a while back...


Originally uploaded by alspix

Perhaps not spectacular to examine (depending on what you enjoy) but definitely noteworthy camera tossing experiments when you know the story. And we certainly love experiments around here.

Come to think of it, while i've got you all thinking about pinhole photography. Be sure to check out this amazing pinhole project, also relating to the sun's movement:

Solargraphy Project by Tarja Trygg
at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki.

...

If you've tried something you feel is very "different" and is still a camera toss by definition... or all this camera tossing simply provided some element of inspiration... feel free to let me know via flickr-mail or email and share it. Perhaps I'll make it the subject of the next installment.

Camera Tossing = Love!

Happy Day
Originally uploaded by eastofnorth.

The Camera Toss Blog would like to extend it's warmest congratulations to _nod and eastofnorth for their recent marriage! I came to know both of them because they were early adopters in the camera toss community on flickr. In fact, that is exactly how they met!

Who says throwing you camera can't possible accomplish anything worthwhile. Not to sound all cliche, but throwing cameras helped to make the best thing of all things in the world...

Love.

And a camera toss selection to suit the theme...



And an interesting asside, both eastofnorth and _nod have created camera-tossed heart shapes, found via a tag search on flickr. Coincidence? I think perhaps not...



And finally... being single myself. Watching all your friends up and get married can be a tad depressing... someone pass me the booze. ;-)



Photo credits (left to right, top to bottom)...

Eastofnorth's wedding guest Rainer,
...
Valentinian, marce_garal, El Ray, mappamundi,
...
the bride, the groom,
...
davespilbrow

What The Duck...

©2006 Aaron Johnson. Included with Permission.

The author/artist of the photography-centric web comic What The Duck sent me a note via this blog a couple days ago to share this relevant comic. I'm not sure how many of the camera tossing enthusiasts out there have had to visit the repair counter yet, but I am sure this was the experience they had if they did so. Fans of web comics and photography should definitely check out his strip. I read the archive and enjoyed it. Aaron has at least one new fan.

Apologies for the lack of postings lately... have a few things to share and will get around to that shortly, also the photo pool is long overdue for a highlights posting...

For now, here's some photo-pool spotlights:


Originally uploaded by yeadon_eric.


Originally uploaded by davespilbrow.


Originally uploaded by El Ray.

Attempt at catching up...

Just a posting to say I've been way behind on keeping up with this blog, and the developments in the Camera Toss community due to my exhibition in Hamburg, Germany... and the travelling I've been doing on the side.

I just wanted to say, after having reviewed the photo pool finally for some new pool picks postings, I'm very impressed with the work of the community of late. Several people have latched onto the idea and taken it in some very new directions. I'll be attempting to highlight some of this work in the coming postings. I have a week to rest in Wien (Vienna) before returning to the gallery and eventually home to Austin.

If you include press coverage of the exhibition, our "in the press" side-bar element is also extremely dated now. It seems like I couldn't walk without stepping on a journalists toes!

Keep inspiring and exploring new worlds!
Ryan Gallagher

echoes [of aesthetics and physics]

echoes
Originally uploaded by mappamundi.

mappamundi shared this in the camera toss photo pool recently and it is an excellent example of something I have been meaning to expound on a little...

...of aesthetics and physics

Are there aesthetics that almost every human can appreciate? Certainly many believe so. A good example is the "Golden Ratio" and how it crops up everywhere in nature and man made design (see Golden Ratio Aesthetics and Golden Ratio on Wikipedia).

Personally I believe we do have some pre defined sense of aesthetics that relates to how our world looks and behaves. We have individual higher aesthetics beyond that, but there seems to be some base which we start from. It's a natural sense, something we have aquired just by existing and absorbing our world. Physics, including the physics of a thrown object, seem to me to fall firmly inside that realm. And when that flying object is capable of recording that motion visually... the result is capable of triggering those natural aesthetics in the viewer.

Obviously there are other ways to achieve photography that speaks to our natural aesthetic sense, but throwing your camera seems to almost force you to do it.

As mappamundi has achieved with this photo, throwing a camera near an unnatural subject, has produced a very natural looking image. A picture of physics. A picture that some, myself included, will consider beautiful. Beautiful for the same reasons that I enjoy images of outer space, watching reeds moving in the wind, curls of smoke rising, cloud formations, and leaves spiraling as they fall.

Some more unnatural pictures of nature, my own, part of the reason why it's been on my mind:


Assorted examples by clickykbd.

practice practice practice...

Cameratoss: It Can Be Done...
Originally uploaded by eastofnorth.

If this is "skill-less" photography, as is often claimed by skeptics, why is there so much room for practicing! Eastofnorth enjoys spiral results, but is stuck working with a camera that has an off center lens, making spirals much more difficult. But it can be done!

A useful exercise, if you are interested in learning the arieal properties of your camera, try doing alot of practice with a single pin-point light source. The motion you achieve will be cleanly illustrated allowing you to hone your skills using the feedback from pervious attempts.

Besides practicing your throws and learning the effects of different exposure lengths, the minimal results can often be quite striking!

catching up with camera toss

Mentioned I was behind blogging developments, so attempting to catch up with a large post. Several people have sets I want to announce. Also, Camera Toss itself is evolving and finding where it fits in the realms of art, photography, documentary, and the universe?

FIRSTLY, NEW PHOTO SETS!

A Matt Groening Tribute Series by _nod


Aaaaaaaaa
Originally uploaded by _nod.

Originally uploaded by _nod (31 images total)
view as a slideshow

_Nod is really good at making sure we keep a whimsical perspective on all this. Being a Matt Groening, Simpsons, and Futurama fan myself, this set had me ROLLING in laughter as I watched the slideshow. TV's and computer monitors make an infinitely variable subject for this technique, as you can control what images they display. Great for tributes such as this. And with just a fling of his camera, _nod has transformed the static images on the television into wonderful popular culture art! It's even appealing to me, despite the fact I have a general dislike for television and most of its' programming!

Christmas Light Tossing by ScaTTicuS_FinCHeM


camera 1980
Originally uploaded by ScaTTicuS_FinCHeM.

Originally uploaded by ScaTTicuS_FinCHeM (34 images total)
view as a sideshow

We will no doubt see alot more of these holiday sets. Winter is here and so are the holiday decorations! Absolutely irresistable to throw your camera around them!

Christmas Tree Tosses by Corgi_T


Tree Toss 3
Originally uploaded by Corgi_T (18 images total)
view as a slideshow

Tis the season for kinetic photography! Addictive indeed, even I have a photo set in the works of unplanned holiday light tossings.

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING

Disclaimer, the following section represents a teeny bit of my rambling, just my humble opinions about camera tossing and even art. I don't attempt to claim everyone, or even all the camera tossers can agree with this perspective, nor should they. If you don't like discourse like this, don't read it. ;-)

I've done very little expounding on what I feel "Camera Toss" is all about online, which is probably good because everyone has their own opinion on this, and their own reasons for viewing results or using this technique. But one thing is for sure, if it was as simple as "see what a thrown camera looks like", we would have done it once, and never looked back. Obviously that is not the case.

We at the camera toss community on flickr have struggled defining what it is we indeed are doing since it has become obvious it is not just for thrills or sport. We finally made some headway after we discussed what we liked about all this, and settling on a name for it, a relatively unexplored genre became obvious, and of course, my next flickr community was born...

Kinetic Photography, a missing chapter in the sphere of kinetic art (wikipedia)? Hyperkinetic photography (hyperkinesis on dict.org) happens all the time, since hyperkinesis has to do with motion and kinetics from muscular action, anyone who has played with moving your camera around during shooting has explored this effect. But what about kinetic motion of the camera documented through a photograph without that animate or a mechanized influence? Restricting influence to just 'natural' kinetics, say physics? Camera Toss! And more broadly when the natural motion is not specifically an airborne camera, moving but not in a mechanical or hyperkinetic way: Kinetic Photography. Not just photography having a kinetic aspect, but photography about kinetics!

Admittedly the phrase itself is not a new term, but typically applied to describe photography or cinematography that has a kinetic feel or deliberate motion to affect the resulting image of a familiar subject. With Camera Toss, and now a hundred other kinetic photography experiments I can imagine, the dominant subject tends to be the kinetic event and motion itself! Neat stuff. It is amazing what can come out of the practice of giving yourself a rigid set of criteria, and then just exploring every aspect within that tiny realm.

When the trained eye of a camera tosser turns to other realms of kinetic motion, equally wonderful things happen! Phrenophile was one of the first to post non-tossed kinetics in the new flickr group I just created, so judge for yourself...


LightCanyon0001
Originally uploaded by phrenophile.

THE UNIVERSE STARES BACK

So here is another interesting development, one that I feel strikes a chord with what i've just been talking about. If you set out to use your camera to take pictures that resemble NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and it's amazing images of our universe, what exactly would YOU do? Well eastofnorth has set out to do exactly that!! Who'd have thought this possible? With her strong understanding of camera tossing and the possible effects, she choose a light source carefully that might help her in the quest. And voila! I'd say she's gotten the result she was looking for! At the very least she's discovered a new nebula!

The first image is a picture of a real space nebula, the second is a photograph (cropped only, no digital editing) taken by eastofnorth in the comfort of her own home.


Hubble's Full WFPC2 Image of Dumbbell Nebula
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Image Type: Astronomical


Cameratoss: Universal 1
Photo Credit: eastofnorth
Image Type: Camera Toss

It just goes to show that employing kinetic photography is truely taking a picture of physics in action, and the results and possibilities are often cosmic, which kinda makes sense in a weird way. The universe is governed by the same laws as the camera in motion. And the results definitely can reflect this connection. This is all getting quite exciting!

on the subject of photography...

photographer threesome
Originally uploaded by clickykbd.

Just wanted to point out that alot of us enjoy normal photography too. Considering this blog actually has traffic, I'm going to try to take time every now and then to point out some of their more outstanding work as I come across it. The one above was a recent photo of mine, one I consider my best of late.

Although she hasn't thrown her camera a whole lot, eastofnorth has been a very present personality from the get go! Here is a particularly lovely one from her:


Field of Grey
Originally uploaded by eastofnorth.

for the record...

Some humor, although scary humor about all this camera tossing. I never thought it would come to this but it has.

When I started all this I was taking pictures with a camera that I paid nothing for and was worth even less. But the images like this it produced inspired many others...


complexity of the simple
Originally uploaded by clickykbd.

For the record, NEVER did I suggest it would be a good idea to throw your several hundred dollar digital SLR, but many have...


fumble
Originally uploaded by _Nod.

And in our constant quest to find objects worthy of throwing our camera "at", some of us have perhaps gone a little too far. The basic idea of camera tossing is relatively risky, but some subjects should just plain be off limits. Such as a priceless Tiffany's lamp for example...


Rainbowtoss
Originally uploaded by laughtonb.

Yes, I've watched antique's roadshow (and find it strangely fascinating). If I had one of those I'd retire young, take lots of pictures, and live happily ever after. Last thing I'd consider doing is throwing my camera at/near it! Are we insane!? Nevermind... don't answer that. Very pretty result despite the epic tragedy potiental, someone take his camera away before he gets in trouble! ;-)