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to get the wildlife excited and interested in your photographic pursuits and ready to gather around posing for snapping purposes, unless you have all the time in the world and the wealther is clement, then its always a good idea to have plenty of nuts, fruits, broken biscuit, breadcrumbs etc about your
person.
it will not be long before camera person observes that possessing 3 arms would be useful; 2 for the camera and one to fling the crumbs to the correct distance for the pre-set focus (not mention the mess that buttery crumbs and fatty nuts can make to your lens and other buttons and such).
what I propose is an attachment for your camera that takes the shape of a hopper containing a day's supply of mixed nuts and crumbs and a peashooter type device which you can hold in your mouth and blow crumb after crumb in
as rapid a fashion as required. the nut-shooter will be attached in such a way that the treats are blown in the correct direction and trajectory - distance is dependant on the precision of one's blow and will obviously be very much a learned art.
for those out in the fresh air for the benefit of their health, a digital read-out of lung capacity is an additional option.
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If you can make it powerful and
directional, and align the aiming point with
the centre of the viewfinder, you'll be able
to bring down birds so that they can be
photographed at leisure. |
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So, not a device to discourage flashers while you are out and about twitching then...? |
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CF, oh you don't mean camera flashers that frighten birds away then? |
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Oh I see, it's for wildlife photography - I thought it was intended to be a confused-face generator for portraits. |
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I think that would make a nice series of pictures; the recently be-nutted. |
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Ohhh... I thought it would be a bit of smart circuitry that identified bulging groins (a little like the new face-sensing technology on some digital cameras) so you could get a decent shot of them, every time. There are whole websites devoted to "camel toe" shots, so it seems reasonable to expect the same of some people compiling photographs of overstuffed undergarments. |
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Then I thought, "No, [po] is past that stage of her life. It's probably an aid for portrait photographers who compile galleries of photographs of the insane and deranged." |
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Then it occurred to me you might be doing some sort of botanical species catalogue, but it seemed likely there were already authoritative works on that subject. |
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I mused that it might be an attachment to hold the attention of squirrels and rodents, though simply tossing a handful of nuts on the ground would obviate the probability of them being scared away by a bombardment with nuts. |
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It briefly crossed my mind that a rabid feminist would want a device to shoot men in the genitals, to render them incapable of sexual assault. I had to concede that was highly possible, having met [po] in the past. |
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Finally, the most likely scenario, in my mind, was simply that a camera with this attachment would allow any idiot to take a decent photograph of the desired subject, whether the user was sane or not. |
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remind me to give you a slap in the very near future - see U on flickr! |
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hmm, I spy sensitive nuts in my crosshair |
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Can't you just put out something the birds can't eat all at once? Like one of those seed cakes? |
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Or spread superglue on the ground around your breadcrumbs? |
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Image of squirrel, frantically licking supaglue off its arse after it sits down for a cute photo opportunity. |
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<sigh> if it were that easy, DC. |
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You need to purchase a pair of fruit 'n' nut dispensers. |
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