Seriously, buses.
The SDMTS sponsored a contest.
The best fifteen photographs are up on their site, until the 27th, to find the most popular image.
Popularity contests being what they are, his fabulous composition might not automatically win on its merits.
That's where you come in, if you'd like to spend the moment.
Won't you
go here and vote for his photograph?
Your vote doesn't just go to the photograph.
It justifies the five hours I spent standing on street corners, or in dark parks and
dark parking lots, as Michael took dozens--perhaps hundreds!--of
pictures of the new environmentally friendly buses that traverse the
San Diego streets. I was there for moral support, and to hold the
camera bag so that no unsavory people would make off with it while
Michael's eyes peered through various apertures, and to make sure he
gave up each evening before the vampires came out.
I was there to wait.
And wait.
And finally, on the last night possible, just as the long white fingers of the underworld were poking up through manhole covers down by Horton Plaza Park, Michael captured that shot.
Voting ends on Feb 27.
Cheers, and thanks!
(Of course, he would say that while he
would appreciate your vote, if there's another photograph you like
better, you should vote your aesthetic tastes. I won't say that. I'm
not as humble nor as nice as he is.)