{"id":15983,"date":"2014-05-17T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=15983"},"modified":"2015-08-07T11:41:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:41:24","slug":"turning-crashes-into-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2014\/05\/17\/turning-crashes-into-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Crashes Into Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dream:<\/strong> I am photographing an air show, but the aircraft are actually rolls of film. A fellow photographer tells me he prefers photographing 620 film instead of 120 film.<\/p>\n

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While photographing Abby’s grand-nephew graduating from high school last night, I saw this guy also taking pictures. I expect he was the other photographer in my dream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am then driving to work in the snow. Sometimes I am in my car, while at other times I am wearing four-wheel-drive shoes, and at others I am riding a four-wheel-drive skateboard. I switch the four-wheel-drive on and off on all of them, and find myself skidding and sliding all over the road. As I do so, a brand new Boeing 737, apparently on its way to the air show, passes me. It has a completely new style of wing-integrated engines. I am able to grab one of the engines and ride the jet into town, sliding on the snow, to the air show.<\/p>\n

Back at the air show, the Boeing takes off with the deck angle of\u00a0a rocket, and I am sure it will crash.<\/p>\n

The jet performs an Immelmann. Someone says, “He’s just showing off,” but the jet crashes into a parking lot of a local shopping center.<\/p>\n

Instead\u00a0of fire, the sky begins to fill with Legos.<\/p>\n

“Our news day just got a lot more complicated,” I say to the other photographer.\u00a0I switch from an autofocus\u00a0zoom to an old 180mm. My other camera has a very large, complicated\u00a0wide angle lens on it.<\/p>\n

I approach and begin to photograph the scene as police begin to calmly string crime scene tape.<\/p>\n

The Lego plume lifts into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n

As I\u00a0stand with one foot in dry grass and one in green grass, an officer tells me that it’s technically illegal for me to be there.<\/p>\n

I step back and say, “I am in the green.”<\/p>\n

The officer answers, “Okay, but, um…” and motions toward two reporters who are crouching in\u00a0the green part of the grass, apparently trying to hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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