One hand, a child by the foot and a wide angle lens
JD – terror followed by joy
Warning: This post carries images that may disturb orthopaedic surgeons and squeamish parents.
With so many children at the birthday party I attended on Sunday afternoon I thought it was the perfect opportunity to take one of those photos (you’ve probably seen) of kids being swung around – the background all blurred in an arc. But I don’t remember when last I saw one of those photos, so I couldn’t actually remember what it looked like and I also couldn’t figure out how to make it work.
And so I made a plan: to swing the child by one foot while taking the photo using the other hand. With that plan only moderately successful I then hoisted a friend on my shoulders to do the shooting, while I swung the kids around using both hands. That was even less successful. How we didn’t crash to the ground in a heap of dizziness I don’t know. (You try twirling around in circles with someone on your shoulders while trying to aim straight to take a photo!)
With the children’s parents now banning me from using their little angels as photography guinea pigs I guess it’ll be a while until I get another chance to try this out … I can at least say that I cured at least three of the children of their fear of aeronausiphobia, dinophobia, kinesophobia and pteromerhanophobia …
✿ ❀ ❃ ❋ ☼
(Oh, and by the way, it is officially spring here. Now for some rain to clear the air!)
“A” getting ready to deal with her fears.
Bigfoot. Fly, scream, twist, turn…
“Okay, I’m ready!” (That’s as far as he got though…)
“C” completely at ease
“C” again. “Weeeeeeeeeeeeee. This is so much fun!”
And finally, two-handed with a photographer on my shoulders.
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Cool, I shure wish I coud do that!
Hsihyqtwbdq….oh sorry, couldn’t type properly for a moment thanks to the vertigo these pictures induced in me……eish. Great shots though!
eeekk….they make me dizzy??? so cool tho!
Wow! They say men cannot multi-task!?
I love these photos, especially the one of J and the many of C, I think she’s your perfect guinea pig for all your crazy photo ideas! Just wish there were photos of the human tower as well, and well done for not falling over!
breathless… waow