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| 'Homage' - 2012 snake |
Homage. When I bowhunt, I usually go
alone. The only time I really need help from a friend is to drag a deer to
the pick-up truck after a successful hunt. The same is true when I photograph.
I usually shoot alone but on occasion, I have prowled the streets with a
friend.
This photograph is an homage to one
of my best friends, in that the composition is similar to a photograph he took
when we were ‘bowhunting’ on a trip to Italy, in 1981. My friend set up a ‘tree
stand’, near a sign with diverging arrows, indicating a fork in the road up
ahead. He ‘hunted’ the spot near that sign for days. I was fortunate enough to
be in the vicinity when everything came together … as 2 old men, both with
canes and stooped shoulders, passed each other, going in opposite directions,
right underneath the sign with the arrows, going in opposite directions. It was
one of my friend’s greatest ‘trophies’.
In the end, the hard work of
scouting and persistence paid off.
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