Black and White Strawberry

Black and White 

Strawberry

Rose Is A Rose by No Other Name

At Close Range

"The yellow is vivid and at the same 

time soft and has that creamy feel to it."

Mike Manning , is the man who authored the quote above in a comment on Google+ where I was introducing myself to a community I had just joined called Macro Photography .  This community 

is built from the ground up, with people shooting "at close range".   And this where Mike spotted 

my capture of this canary yellow specimen reaching out to be saved.  Don't let the soft and creamy

 fool ya Mike.  I told the thing to freeze.  He/She did freeze.   And  iShot it at close range! 

I am certain when I say, "all people are safer walking around in public, because iShoot Flowers".  

I could have went after thugs and big time mobsters instead, ya know?  But  I rose to the occasion

 to be the one to remove that quintessential thorn from societies everywhere.  Ya see, a mobsters

 mentality is like a piece of pussy willow compared to these colored  and strange looking creatures. 

 One has to be mathematically calculated to shoot a flower, especially at close range.  They can

 move on you with the slightest amount of wind, and make you blow your shot.  You can imagine 

the frustration that that seeds in me.  I can only shoot so many times a day before I draw blanks. 

Ewwww, this makes me impatiens  like a "Bizzy Lizzie" (which is embarrassing for a strapping man's

 man like me).   It makes me feel like a darn pansy when one gets away.  I know.  I know what 

you are gonna say.  That  I need to have patience.  It's hard for me cause I'm nothing but a 

snapdragon in hell, when  iShoot Flowers.   

Until that bachelor's button arrives for me,  I guess I will have to settle being a stargazer in disguise. 

 As if looking at the big, bright cosmos right in front of me weren't keepin' me busy enough.  

 Hell!  A darned Lily of the valley stinking of perfume is what I turned into,  I say!  However, 

you should know that no matter how disgraceful I might appear to you right here and now, 

have no fear.  I have learned the secrets from the most famous Proteus. He is a mythological god 

who can foretell the future and change his shape to avoid having to: he will only answer to 

someone who is capable of capturing him.  Pretty nifty, huh?  

Or is that Prometheus?  

Anyways, no matter.  I am like the bird of paradise with a  baby's breath of fresh air!  No that's

 not how you say it.  Well then I say, "I am not afraid of those tulip'ed common yarrows, 

I am not afraid of what they turn into"!.  I shall hit them with my sword fern made of... goldenrod! 

 Gosh darn it!  That's not how ya say it either.  No matter how you add it up, I am still the 

man for the job.  I shoot at close range or I shoot wide and everything in between.  

  

So ya see,  why most choose shooting thugs now instead?  They are as powerful as a baby's 

breath to me.  Hardy har har! ...... Please it would be a breath of heaven that'd save me 

from that hell!  It's not the thugs and mobster's you have to be watching out for.

(Insert Silence).....

Said in a whisper,  "it is the flowers you have to watch out for".  And I am proud to say that.... 

(looks side to side to see if anyone is listening)....and says

"iShoot Flowers".  The end