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Every summer, the Auburn Children's Theater would put on plays for the kids at all of the city parks. Here is one of my favorite childhood memories, sitting in a scrap-yard. I know times have changed, but there used to be a concern about bringing culture for FREE to the youth in my city.

UPDATE: I posted these on Facebook, and the Merry Go Round Playhouse/Theater group is going to try and buy and restore wagon. I'm pretty excited.

Ok, long story...Shot for Shacknews Assignment Group "RE-Shoot"

I decided to get creative and make some props for my photography, the first one being a Gas Mask that I attached a Telephoto lens to the place where all the bad air is filtered out. My concept was 'filter out all bad photos'. Well, my initial attempt was a self portrait, in the blazing sun, with an wireless remote that wasn't working... oh, and because the lens was where you breathed through, I pretty much was holding my breath until I almost passed out. This is the terrible result www.flickr.com/photos/-drew-/7054917771/

So, I decided to re-shoot today... my idea was to get some tall thin girl, and get her to wear the mask while bending over to 'view' a flower with the mask. Well, since I got out of work at 5pm, and had no time to hire or persuade a model to do this, I asked a friend of mine if he'd be willing to pose in a gas mask (without bending over, mind you) in a public place with a bunch of flowers. After assuring him that I adjusted the breathing valve so he could actually not die in the mask, he agreed, and we hurried out.

Well, we were burning daylight fast so we headed towards the nearest lake park and started shooting. Good friend, terrible model. He kept staring directly ahead holding the flowers like they were a flag or something. After about 40 shots and us scaring all the fishermen out of the park (this really happened), I got two OK shots, and I'm going with the full shot instead of the zoomed one, only because I don't like how I cropped off his ear (this was in camera, so no fixing it)...

2nd attempt shooting with my Home-made Camera Lens Gas Mask...I still haven't quite found the perfect shot for it, but I have some new ideas now. (And thank you fellow Auburn Photography Club Member, Dean, for being both a good sport and the most unnatural model ever...)

Grandma Betty's 85th