“Dramatic look away Rich”
Please don’t for a minute confuse “Dramatic look away Rich” with “GI Joe with Kung Fu Grip,” or “Corvette Driving Ken Doll.” Nope, I’m 100% human non plastic and everything.
It’s hard getting perspective in landscape shots sometimes. It’s even harder portraying the sheer size of the canyons here. So there are moments when I willingly get in front of the camera. Normally I’d rather be behind the camera. It’s extremely safe there you know. Nothing can touch you behind that lens. But in front of the lens? Yeah, that’s when the Chupacabra come out of the rocks to get ya!
Last weekend I had many moments where I needed to really relay the size of the formations I was hiking in. What to do, what to do? Well, clearly it was time to break out “dramatic look away Rich” (hence forth to be known as DLAR, I’ll trademark it soon). The tripod was readied, the self timer timed away, and I ran into position over and over again. Looking at the camera I make too many goofy faces. If you’ve followed this blog you know what I mean. But working the DLAR route you don’t know what stupid face I’m making.
What came out of the self timed look away shots?
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I’m remembering the photo of you at Purgatory Chasm.
That hiker posse looks like an old photo of you from purgatory 🙂