Friday Hometown Shootout -- Sounds

WARNING!  THIS POST CONTAINS EXPLICIT CORNY-NESS

(Both subtle cornyness and blatant cornyness)

Tough assignment, although the blind hike idea sounded great.  Butler, however, had already decided he didn't want to participate in sound photography.  And Bagman was angry at me because he had gone to great lengths to dress up like Julie Andrews in Sound of Music and I thought he was Debbie Reynolds.  So I had to go alone.  

Afterwards, sitting on my porch, bruised from head to toe from walking around in a blindfold, I looked at my backyard.  It was a beautiful sunny day.  But it was totally quiet.

But I began to concentrate less on what I saw...

...than what I heard.

Although it is winter, I heard a few birds chirping in various trees.

Then, from the house across the pond, I heard my neighbor's leaf blower.

A gust of wind came up and leaves rustled in trees and the wind chime rang.

I jumped up with excitement!  This is great!  I need to run downtown and see what Charleston sounds like!   I asked Bagman to come but he was listening to "The Sounds of Silence" on his iPod.  I gave him the thumbs up and said, "Sonny and Cher?"  

BAGMAN (Glaring back):  "Simon and Garfinkle, you idiot!"

Ignoring him, I headed downtown.

and I didn't even have to close my eyes

I'm sorry...I can't go on.  By the time I had wasted so much time going down this slapstick road, there was no turning back.  I was buried in photoshop layers and didn't know how to get out.

But as I was looking for stuff, I did find one old photo that did seem to personify a picture of sound...not city sound...just sound. 

So here it is...and I'm going back to bed.

Next week's shootout

Bagman, Butler and I are sitting in the B&B office scratching out heads and trying to figure out how to shoot next Friday's theme, so creatively picked by Nan -- "The Sounds of My Town."    Butler has already given up because he is a rather concrete thinker and has simply declared it an impossible theme.  Bagman is trying to get into the spirit by wearing a Debbie Reynolds wig, a bright dress, and spinning around singing, "The hills are alive with the sound of music." 

I'm just mulling. 

We could shoot the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.  If they were playing this week.  I went for a walk earlier and I saw things and I heard things...but they weren't the same things.  

I could just shoot anything that makes sound and post it and get off easy.  But I appreciate Nan's creativity and intelligence too much not to try and figure out something of interest.  

And, on top of that, I've recently made a semi-promise to myself to try and shoot more things and spend less time pouring through my archives.  

Hmmmm.....