Fisherman

A wooden sculpture of a fisherman at a local restaurant

For some strange reason, I have something of an obsession with those weird, wooden and plastic sculptures that are typically used to decorate restaurants, bar, hotel lobbies, and etc.    I really like to shoot them with my phone camera.  I think the distortion of the lens gives a slightly eerie, disturbing feeling to the shots.

I modified this with Photoshop.

Bill to require sound when pics are taken with cell phone?

By OMAR EL AKKAD Toronto Globe and Mail

A New York congressman has introduced a bill that would force U.S. phone manufacturers to program an audible tone that plays every time the cell phone’s camera is used, in an effort to stem the voyeuristic tide of revealing, unauthorized photography.

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