Zoey Gets Panned and Remembering The Iditarod and Robert W. Service

in memory of

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

by Robert W. Service

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGeycdvsAgM

zOeY gEtS pAnnEd

the dog Zoey was moving

so quickly

I was panning

so slowly

the dog's was panting

and sniffing all the time as usual

a virtual nose on a dog

i was pantomiming the action

pretending to be a great photographer

maybe Karsch?

panicking that I would not get the shot

going with the flow of the dog

being The Art of Zen Photog

because the dog never

stands still

she pulls and pulls

like an old musher

she gave and gave and won me the old 49er

a whole sled-load of quart oil for her

in the Great Northern Iditarod dogsled races

of which I recall Nibbles my old boxer mix

won just such a whole box of 24X24 quarts of oil

long enough ago now

in the 90's

but now I am Zen again

please remember when

but the moment is the focus

if I can get 'er in focus!!!

YES!!!

to get a picture worthy picture

to grace all the covers of Time

see how the background is blurred?

see how the dog should be more in focus?

see how Jane is totally frustrated?

Confusious ask too many questions

Just be Jane

experience your laboured breathing

hold it tight

focus all that energy on the shot!

no don't shoot the turkeys

go beserk in the field

or the deers so swift with

their cottonwhite tails whipping me in the face

and so tauntingly too

telling me

'ha ha'

you missed the shot!

these new-fangled devices

need to get upgraded in my opinion

for the love of my digicam!

Chiccoreal

http://www.iditarod.com/learn/history.html