{"id":7350,"date":"2013-03-27T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2013-03-27T21:12:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T04:12:39","slug":"an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7350","title":{"rendered":"An idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning, I was repeatedly told I was an idiot.<\/p>\n

The backstory is familiar to the handful of people who read this blog. I am a nature photographer. To take pictures of birds, bears, or bugs, I use a telephoto lens stabilized with a monopod. It is my standard equipment on walks along woods, meadows, or beach. I am not alone in applying this rather successful\u00a0recipe to wildlife images—it is the practice of most wildlife photographers (although some carry an even more bulky tripod).<\/p>\n

The majority of the pictures that have appeared in this blog over the years have been taken in this way. Indeed, readers have ofttimes commented upon the sharpness or clarity of the resulting images.<\/p>\n

Dogs find the bulk of my camera and its monopod to be a threat. Or at least that is the reason this morning’s dog walker gave when justifying the behaviour of his three off-leash dogs which had barked, bared their teeth, and charged me: “you are an idiot for carrying a big stick [the monopod].” This\u00a0insult\u00a0was repeated a number of times, just in case I initially had not grasped his own blamelessness for his dogs’\u00a0behaviours.<\/p>\n

I responded that I am allowed to carry my “stick” but that he is not allowed to walk his dogs here. For curiously, the standoff took place past, but within sight of, one of the many signs BC Parks has posted around the Park. That sign (below) says:<\/p>\n

The area past this sign is closed to all dogs at all times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the second time this week that off-leash dogs have accosted me in this no-dog area. It seems that while I am allowed to carry a camera and others are not allowed to walk dogs, it is I who am the idiot. At least I am sufficiently\u00a0literate to read signs.<\/p>\n

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