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18-NOV-2007

A nice mistake

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It is a picture with a nice story.
I like Octopuses, I like them a lot. One day, or night actually, when I was diving, I spotted one, big and red, and not shy at all. So, here I am, sitting next to him, holding my camera with the flashlight attached to it (it is called modeling light and it is used for focusing in the dark), and suddenly, the Octopus starts to get curious... first, he sends one "hand" and touches the flash light very gently, then, with more confidence, he starts "probing" the flash light, moving it from here to there, and I was very amused and was waiting to see what will he do next....
Well.... next? next, he decided he really likes the flash light and camera and tried to take them away...
I am nice, but not that nice, so I was pulling back, and he and I were fighting over the camera for a few seconds....
During the fight, me or him were pressing the shutter a few times, I knew that because I saw the strobe fires a few time.
To make the story short, I won the fight, got my camera back, but the best thing I got from our fight was this picture - a self portrait of an Octopus, taken by an Octopus (by mistake) :-)

Canon PowerShot A630
1/250s f/7.1 at 7.3mm full exif

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Ilan Ben Tov04-Mar-2021 13:15
Excellent
Susan Rovira12-Aug-2010 04:40
Great backstory, Dani. And great photo.
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