I am confident enough in my ability to take a photo, to post a bad one now and then. Though, you will notice my watermark is missing, I am posting it, but I am not proud of it… I have over 50 cameras out of them 5 active ones. I always have a camera with me, but this morning I did not grab the pocket camera, the battery was low, was not sure if the card was in it… just could not have been bothered to get it all together. I actually had the thought, it was like a joke Mitch Hedberg (my favorite comedian) had: “See I sit in my hotel at night, I think of something that’s funny and then I go get a pen and I write it down. Or if the pen’s too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain’t funny.” That’s what I did, I convinced myself I was not going to need to take a picture today, or at least until I got home. I left the house, cameraless. About 2 miles from my house, I see a fox sleeping in the sun on a rock right on the side of the road. It was awesome, light was perfect, beautiful backdrop… no camera. I snapped this photo, it stinks, because I used a phone, just using the phone makes me mad… annoyed, I turned around and went home, to get the real camera. Went back to the rock figuring it would be gone. It was so close to the road, no way it was going to hang out as cars drove by, but there it was, still there enjoying the light. I rolled down the window, raised up the camera just as the damn bus hurdled by with loud kids, then gone. It jumped off the rock as I pushed the shutter. I missed it. I got one photo before it hide behind the rocks further away, but not the shot I wanted. All I am left with is this crap phone photo.  I do not miss many photos, but when I do… I get very annoyed, annoyed enough to publicly post a bad photo as punishment. I offer you all this advice: 1. always have a camera if you want to get great photos. #2. A phone IS NOT a camera.

tr/trp