Apr 13 2008
Bye Bye to Yellow
In our minivan on Saturday, I created a monster.
Make that four monsters.
Benjamin rode along with Shannon, her mom, her cousin, and me. He joined them in pointing out everything yellow — storefront awnings, road signs, vehicles — you name it, they saw it. While I appreciated their participation at first, it began to grate on my nerves. They knew that, I’m sure, and so kept at it. You can always count on family.
At one point, while my helpers were distracted, I noticed three tiny yellow flags on thin metal sticks warning not to dig near a silver fire hydrant with yellow caps. That would make a nice grouping for Project Yellow, I thought. From the driver’s seat I slid down the front passenger’s side window and aimed my trusty Nikon and its 70-210mm zoom (translates to 105-315 on the DSLR body). Optically, it’s my best autofocus lens.
At the instant I depressed the shutter release to engage said autofocus, a truck pulled up beside us, completely obscuring my view.
Would you believe it was a yellow truck?
So, instead of a boring picture of three caution flags and a fire hydrant (which has been done in Project Yellow already), you get a boring picture of an obsolete Mapsco Texas Road Atlas. But can you guess where it is?
in the back seat of your car
Sorry we bugged you so much - we were just trying to help! ;o) Now we’re anxiously awaiting the next color project!
I love that it was a family affair! How fun! Hi Shannon…hope you had fun pointing things out with the family! I will be telling the new color soon….maybe Ben can do a guest post of a favorite shot of his when we do the next project!
Also, Mark…have you noticed that Marks “PY” abbreviation has caught on for my project?
Ya’ll have a good week!
I’m cracking up because I also saw little caution flags today and almost shot them. BUT I didn’t because I was on a walk with my kids who were shouting- “HERE’S YELLOW!” every 5 seconds. Earlier in the day I shot a few of my construction shots from the car before I finally pulled over and got a little closer. Ah, the joys of being a photographer. Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you don’t. I’m enjoying your blog!
Where is it?
It looks stuck in the front passenger door compartment, well-thumbed. The atlas, that is, not the door compartment. Who would thumb that? (More than once, anyway.)
Lilli - Close.
Shan - You didn’t bug me, really. I like that everybody got into it, but I could tell that at least S was doing it a little to mess with me.
Anna - I’ve cooked up a project, but not a color theme. I hope there’s room for two in this town!
Lacey - They were inviting little flags. Had I been walking around instead of driving, I could have got down really low and aimed from below the flags, into the sky. Or passing cars. Something fun like that.
Simon - You nailed it, of course. It is nestled in the front passenger door compartment.
Um, we were all doing it to mess with you - duh!
Oh, it was in that seat-back pocket that nobody knows what to put in it….
Heeeey….I’ve yet to post my fire hydrant picture (that’s for my finale tomorrow!) and it’s hardly boring!
Aren’t you a bit indignant when someone or something obscures the shot you had perfectly staged? Ha! Funny about how much help you were getting… I avoided that by not mentioning what I was up to ;).
Looking forward to hearing about your project…:)