Got up in the morning and had a great start. First of all, milk was off, so no cereals or coffee for me. Was forced to treat the stomach with some tasteless cottage cheese, great! Then I've packed my college gear and got down to the car, here all starts. The only road that I can drive out from the area got badly flooded overnight. Venice... I thought to myself. As my car is quite much lowered, or in other words decked to the ground, attempting to drive through the puddle would end with water inside the cabin.
So I got out of the car, hazards on, Nikon FE in my hands. Decided to finish the roll of black and white film on some aquaplanning. The puddle was about 120 meters long and in the deepest point some 20 cm deep.
After finishing the roll of the B+W film I've went back home, changed and took my digital back over to the puddle. Thought that I will take an advantage over what the fate has given to me. It was a right choice, despite that I got soaked a lot by the rain itself and the bypassing cars, I didn't regret standing there, waiting for good shots. At least this, if can't get over to the college, why not to do some unguided practicals?
Equipped with a Tokina 12-24mm lens, that I personally find a very useful photojournalist lens, had to get really close to the action getting my Air Force One's flooded a number of times. Meanwhile, I saw a flash lamp. Looked to the other side of the road and have noticed a mystery photographer snapping away with some long lens.
Crossed the "river" to have a chat with her. Found out that she's working for Liffey Champion, and that this is the only puddle in Lucan. Lucky me again! Before I approached her, a Renault Megane without a front number plate was about to "swim" through the water. I remembered that I was taking a picture of a number plate earlier on the film. Compared the numbers with what was there on the ground with what was sitting on the Megane. Bingo! I've waved the reg plates at the Megane, the man stopped and got his plate back. While, this was happening, the Liffey Champion photographer was doing her job. She told me later that those images are probably one of the best from the whole shoot. Happy days! It's nice to help a fellow photographer, well it's actually nice to be... nice.
Some drivers would drive slow, some rush through, some like me would just do a U-turn. A few creative ones, decided to use the sidewalk as an aid in crossing the puddle. As many people, that many approaches to the wet situation.
Well, the best approach to the whole problem had Mr. Postman. Take it easy, and enjoy the day anyway. Fair play to him for that, doing such a difficult job in so unfriendly conditions and at the same time still smiling.
Maybe I've lost a day of lectures, that I wasn't happy about. But now I see how much more I've learned from this unplanned and unguided practical session. Thanks for that, fate!
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