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[Goodyear]

The guy standing funny to get his shot...

In Cambridge last week we walked into a crowd of tourists. One guy was doing just that, with the added excellence of the digicam at arm's length composing on the screen.

It looks even funnier in real life!

 

[Alec]

Ha! but you didn't have a cam at hand... it takes one to know one! 😉

 

[bmattock]

The guy standing funny to get his shot...

In Cambridge last week we walked into a crowd of tourists. One guy was doing just that, with the added excellence of the digicam at arm's length composing on the screen.

It looks even funnier in real life!

It always reminds me of the back cover of a Madness album I have around here somewhere. Wish I had an example to show you, but it's a ringer.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[Goodyear]

Ha! but you didn't have a cam at hand... it takes one to know one! 😉

Well, I did.

But I was walking along trying to change a roll of filem!

 

[remrf]

This thread reminded me of something I read on the photoethnolgy site. In the definition of terms they describe "chimping" as a person who has just shot a picture with a digital camera and is looking very intently at the view screen on the back and waving their arms to friends to look at the shot.

I of course never "chimp". My Minolta Z-1 has a switch on the back so I can review the previous shot through the view finder screen and thus never"chimp" in public.
😀

 

[sockeyed]

<--- Here's my avatar!

It's an elegant pose and requires a black belt in photo ninjitsu.

 

[Justin Viiret]

It's not that far off horse stance, actually, for people who train in martial arts or watch a lot of kung fu films (though the feet aren't even in that shot 🙂 )

jv

 

[richard_l]

It's not that far off horse stance, actually, for people who train in martial arts or watch a lot of kung fu films (though the feet aren't even in that shot 🙂 )

jv

It must be an obese horse stance or a hippopotamus stance.

 

[Alec]

Well, I did.

But I was walking along trying to change a roll of filem!

Are you a bottom loader too? 😀

 

[Socke]

I of course never "chimp". My Minolta Z-1 has a switch on the back so I can review the previous shot through the view finder screen and thus never"chimp" in public.
😀

I do a lot of chimping in public! It's best done with a couple of girls on a sofa ...

 

[jorisbens]

It's not that far off horse stance, actually, for people who train in martial arts or watch a lot of kung fu films (though the feet aren't even in that shot 🙂 )

jv

I was thinking just the same, I'm a real amateur in Kung Fu (I started 2 months ago) but I already know that position. 😎 And I've got a very good master, SiFu Lo. Does this mean that I could also take photographs in the praying mantis attack position? 😀

 

[dexdog]

Bill, it's gotta be this one...

 

[Kin Lau]

There was an email passed around by my oriental friends... it's almost all orientals, especially CJK's that do this, and the funny positions get even funnier.

 

[Goodyear]

My estimation was that the tourists were indeed Japanese...

 

[bmattock]

Bill, it's gotta be this one...

Actually, I was looking for it online last night - it is the back or the inside cover of "Madness 7" I think...it shows the horse stance quite clearly.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[bmattock]

It must be an obese horse stance or a hippopotamus stance.

Different disciplines have different "horse stances". Isshin-Ryu, in which I trained, had a shoulder-width stance. Wado had a much wider stance. The horse stance is usually the beginning point of any exercise or kata.

http://www.ehow.com/how_8030_horse-stance-karate.html

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[James Burton]

Are you a bottom loader too? 😀

I don't have shots of any hippopotaums, horse or nijitsu stances.
I do however have a foot-shooter. See my collection of photographers

Now I need a shot of a bottom loader 😛 . Any offers?

James

 

[Goodyear]

See my collection of photographers

A fascinating (and entertaining) collection!

 

[sockeyed]

I think that it's time to share the whole series. I wish I could credit the photographer, but someone just forwarded these to me.

 

[sockeyed]

These never fail to make me smile.