Why This Picture Has No Raccoons in It

[akirlu]

So I'm still very much getting used to my new phone. This morning while I was loading some songs onto it at my desk, a mama raccoon and her two kits strolled by along the neighbor's driveway, just outside my window. I grabbed up the phone thinking I could catch them before they went by, but the camera was in front-facing mode and while the mama was quite patient about hanging out menacing me on her hind legs and then just watching me perplexedly while I took a series of increasingly unflattering selfies of the underside of my chin, eventually she and the little ones trundled on to do whatever business they were doing in the first place. By the time I figured out which icon switches to the main camera lens again, they were long gone. So here's a picture with no raccoons in it.

And here's my first official cell phone selfie, from a few days ago, which has a lot less chin in it.

Comments

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the laugh!

Even having had iPhones for a while, I still accidentally get my phone camera into the wrong mode sometimes. Usually when I'm excitedly trying to photograph something, of course.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, I could see that being a problem going forward for me too, which is only one of the many reasons why I will also be bringing a compact camera with me to Dublin, London, Bruges, and Cambridge.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I am often surprised to find a portion of my index finger obscuring one corner of my phone shots. That never happens with real cameras.