[Leica] IMG: Ira's PAW - Week 6

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On Sat, 17 Feb 200706:02:58 +100, Alastair Firkin wrote, "The cloud seems  
to 
rise with menace over the trees:..."
 
Alastair,
 
Thank you for looking and commenting.
 
As I was positioning myself to capture this image, I was thinking of a  
former neighbor of mine, who I'll call John (not his real name).  John  was 
a 
senior captain with American Airlines flying 747's between Los Angeles and  
Honolulu, with all the discipline and sense of responsibility that came with 
 that 
position.  However, he had a few interesting quirks.
 
First, he believed, with absolute conviction, that Star Trek (the original  
TV series) was true history, as conveyed to Gene Roddenberry when he was 
visited  by Vulcans.  Second, he insisted with equal conviction, that we 
were  
constantly being monitored by shape-shifting UFOs, which we saw as the  
uniform and 
fast moving clouds that appear over the Mojave Desert.  I was  generally 
able 
to accept this with good humor, except when he insisted on  playing tape 
cassettes with the sounds of warp-drive on long car trips.
 
So, if I managed to capture some of the tension in a cloud that some may  
see 
as a UFO, then I've succeeded.
 
Best Regards,
 
Ira Silverman
Irvine, CA