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Sabine wrote...
~~~ Dog behind fence: ruff ruff ruff....ruff ruff me: (click click.....click) Dog behind fence: (more intently now) ruff ruff ruff....ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff....ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff....ruff ruff me: (click click.....click) Man behind fence: Roscoe! What's going on out there? Man behind fence: (peering around fence) What's going on out here? me: (pointing at knothole in fence) Oh, I'm sorry, I was just taking a picture of your fence. Man peering around fence: My fence? Well that doesn't seem very interesting. me: Its not (then trying to add levity to a tense encounter) but maybe if you had something interesting that showed through the peephole? Man peering around fence: Is that your bike? me: (hopeful that maybe he wants to put my bike in the peephole view, which is a little trite, but since when has trite stopped me) Yes, it is! Man peering around fence: Then maybe you should ride it to somewhere more interesting and take pictures there. ~~~

John wrote...
Love your story....I often wonder what non photographers think about those of us who find ourselves in strange positions and places in order to get our pics..... beauty is in the eye of the beholder.....I think its a lovely hole...and you pictured it nicely...if that is not too too trite... Seen in I was blind etc

Tamsin wrote...
That's brilliant---can picture the scene and it's making me smile! You should get it enlarged and take it proudly along to show him, then click his reaction-- now that would be a shot!! There is something showing in the peep hole, what is it? Love how you have captured the beauty of aged timber with that lovely deep grain...lovely job :)

Summer n Rose wrote...
Hahaha...what a funny story indeed! I can just imagine that moment! You have great photos of our peninsula...its good that you commented on my site so I could get the chance to look at your stuff too ! Lovely work!

John wrote...
Hmm, if you weren't supposed to look through the fence, why does it have a knothole? -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)

Sabine wrote...
inate - exactly!

Sabine wrote...
gg - It looked like a stable, but it was hard to tell and Roscoe kept barking at me when I would get close and peep through it. There was a saddle on the little fence in the peephole that I kept trying to get, but just couldn't get the angle on the dangle to do it.

Sabine wrote...
summer n rose - I grew up on the peninsula (seaside) and so I am the one thats glad to have found your stream!

David wrote...
LOL! great story... & photo! You should have taken a photo of "Man behind fence" with Roscoe the dog. I had a fierce dog barking only a few inches from my .. uh.. (pants) when I took this pic... At least there were no odd people to also deal with ;)

Summer n Rose wrote...
Great Sabine...we'll make sure to to pay mutual visits....you really have some hot stuff on your stream!

DeAnn wrote...
cool shot!! great DOV

Steve Anderson wrote...
I like your scribblins. I want to have an adventure too!! Maybe I will go for a ride on the Happy Trails and track that mountain lion that's been prowling around.

Kathleen wrote...
Fantastic image and story ~ so easy to picture the entire scene. Poor Roscoe, stuck with that irritable human!

aj94 wrote...
haha, your story makes this photo more interesting.

Garrett Lau wrote...
This is perfect as is. Having a bike or a saddle visible through the knot hole would ruin it. The barely-discernable object in the background draws attention to the knot hole instead of distracting from it. The subject is the fence. The photo works precisely because we can't tell what is behind the fence.

Jim wrote...
Nice photo! Great tone, beautiful composition. Thanks for sharing the story.

Patrizia Ferri wrote...
I think this photo is a great non colours in colour shot Please add your photo to www.flickr.com/groups/noncoloursincolour/ After you add it to the group pool, please tag this photo as a noncoloursincolour

Larry Bosworth wrote...
Haha, excellent! You made art with 'just a hole in a fence.' I found it very interesting!

kenny schick wrote...
my favorite thing about photography these days is that it makes me see and look for the beauty in everything....and i love to find art in things that most people totally overlook....i get all sorts of comments and odd looks when i shoot these days....: )