Couple of days ago, I had a night photography-Op..

It seems that many people are disturbed if they see a person taking photographs at an unusual place and time. That is, when I was taking some photos of car's front and tail-lights (the light tracers), a person who happened to pass by the nearby street suddenly stopped. He got something out his jacket's pocket. It was a camera and he started to shoot me like he was acquiring some evidence of a crime. I just gazed at him surprised and bit annoyed.. Quickly he started walking faster, away from me, and occasionally he glanced nervously back at me. Nice! He was probably some local nutjob.. and I'm probably in his collection of paranoid delusions by now. Meet Skorpius, The Sinister Night Stalker who covertly shoots people for the government!

Next, I stopped in a road and tried to take a shot of beetle on a flower. It was very dark and I had problems with the focus. Thus just kept shooting frantically and did not pay attention to my surroundings. Then a young (probably 20 - 25 years) guy bicycled the nearby road and noticed me. He slowed down, looked at me visibly surprised and disturbed and shouted:

What a *ucking freak! and very quickly drove away.

At this point, I thought that my luck is running out and decided to pack me stuff and go home. I mean, the next encounter would have probably have been a Motorcycle gangbanger who would have thought I'm a cop on stakeout!

P.S. This mask might have had something to do with the events described above..


By Andromidus