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Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro
Story from when I took a photo of the LV sign
Thank you for blogging about Vegas. It brings back happy memories from when I was there a few years ago. Actually, one of the luckiest shots I've ever taken was of the Las Vegas sign. There is a constant stream of tourists going there and everybody wants to stand themselves in the picture when they shot a photo of the sign. I, on the other hand, do not want people in my pics. Not me and certainly not three or four people whom I have never met before who is posing for their own photo. We got out of the car and we stood there for a while when I all of a sudden see that I, for about two seconds, have a clear view of the sign. Some tourists had already left and a new group was coming but they were a few metres away. I pull out the camera, just like a gunslinger in the wild west would would pull our his gun, and shoot the photo without aiming or anything. I shoot in the same motion as I pull it out really. One second later the magic moment is gone. When I look at the picture on the camera I see that the photo is perfectly centred and perfectly cropped. When I look really carefully at the photo I notice that there is one person in the photo. Right on the edge there is an Elvis impersonator. I could not even dream up a better photo /Ake