Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Hick is No Ansel or Dorothea. That's a Fact, Jack!

I think it's safe to say that Genius did not inherit his photography talent from Hick.

Here's a sample of Genius's work. It's from the early years, before he even left the under-thumb area tender loving embrace home of Val and Hick.

Those are trees down by Hick's cabin, photographed by Genius. And this next one, just Genius fiddling around with too much time on his hands, trapped in the house that Hick built.

I don't expect a landscape or a color-tinted stop-action shot of paint drips from Hick. But I DO expect to see my second son on a visit to his prospective college.

Now let's take a look at a sample of HICK'S recent work. As recent as THIS WEEK. You'll notice that the composition of this photo seems a bit...how you say...OFF!

Yeah. He's really there. The Pony is the one with that other arrow-shooting dude standing on his head. Perhaps you can see him there. He DOES have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. He's wearing glasses. Holding his bag of swag from the admissions office.

Uh huh. I really have no qualms posting a picture of my little Pony, all grown up, yet still anonymous thanks to his father's photography skills. I suppose Hick does not know that you can have a person in the foreground, and still get a picture of what's behind him. Sadly, we have the same style of picture from the year The Pony went to the Missouri Scholars Academy. A long shot, with a statue behind, and a barely recognizable face.

If Hick had been around, and if technology lent itself to those long-ago historical days of yesteryear...there might have been a photo of Washington crossing the Delaware. With Hick's touch, though, you would see a thin trickle of water, a twig floating in the middle, and a dandelion standing at the twig-bow.

Yup. No qualms at all about posting this picture of The Pony.

16 comments:

  1. If you blow it up real big it gets a fuzzy Monet effect.

    Does Hick use a Kodak Brownie?

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    1. Hick uses a Sprint HTC. His third one, since he keeps dropping them in the toilet. This one must be about four years old.

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  2. You've described your family so well over the years that I feel like I know them, a tribute to your writing skills, but it still is fun to see an actual picture of a member of your clan, even if it is far away.

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    1. I think you can still get the full effect of his vampire-like paleness, from all those years of laying on the basement couch playing computer games. I'm surprised he could stand upright long enough to pose.

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  3. He Who does the same thing! Really not surprising, is it?

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    1. No, I don't have to use my psychic powers to see that one coming.

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  4. Maybe Hick was going for one of those ART shots - you know, the ones where someone looks like they are holding the sun in their hand or something. I expect Hick wanted it to look like the arrow shooting dude was standing on his head and in fact you have just missed his total genius (this happens to me ALL the time so I know how Hick feels ...)

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    1. I cannot speak for you, but I'm pretty sure I have not missed Hick's total geniusness.

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  5. Maybe next time, you should ask The Pony to take a selfie. Then at least you'd be able to recognize your son... You couldn't post it, but you COULD save it as a keepsake.

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    1. Yes, but he'd be sure to catch something inappropriate in the background. In which case I could put them in a book called Awkward Pony Selfies.

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  6. At least there's sorta recognizable proof they were there. I'm guessing you don't worry about them photoshoping pictures to create an alibi for something clandestine.

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    1. No, I don't worry about that at all. The Pony doesn't need an alibi for the 99.9% of his time spent laying on a couch playing computer games, and Hick doesn't know the meaning of clandestine and wouldn't know Photoshop if it bit him in the butt.

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  7. LOVED Genius' photos--Hick's, not so much!!

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    1. A reaction often garnered by the two of them, photos not even considered.

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  8. I nearly got into a knock-down, drag-out brawl with SWMBO when I asked her to take a picture of me with the Eiffel Tower behind me and then tried to tell her how to take it.

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    1. Oh, dear. I hope you weren't trying to look like you were holding it over your head...

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