Mr. Apple

Today's the last day to post for dependence day, right? When I first read the assignment a week ago, I instantly thought "I should do a nice portrait of Mr. Apple." (although, I don't really call him "Mr. Apple" in my own mind) I really do depend on him and I thought I might even get out the studio and do a proper portrait since I have never really done one of him.

Procrastinating until now, and having lots of other blip material this week, I didn't do it until I saw the quickly-fading evening sun coming through the window and hitting the couch. I interrupted his work and said "Can I have you for 2 minutes in the living room to take your picture?" He grumbled something about "Yeah, sure, in a minute..." and of course, by the time he came out the light was gone and I grumbled something like "Well, forget it, now the light's gone." This caused one of those 90 second mini-fights with grumbling and pouting in separate rooms.

Until, I hear from the living room, "The light is kinda back now if you want to do it." So, huffing and puffing, I bring out the camera and in two seconds we are laughing our heads off at each other because the sun is too bright for him to open his eyes and look at the camera. And, he starts making silly faces, I start taunting him about what I am going to say about him on Blip tonight and how I am going to send his silly pictures to his mother (who hates silly pictures).

I shoot 42 pictures in 2 minutes, 32 seconds. He finally says, "Haven't you got a good one yet?" and I say "Oh yeah, I got a good one a while ago, I just thought I'd see how long you'd keep this up!"