One legged

IMG_1927, uploaded by davejenbarnes.

I got a lot of stares in DC. Not the good kind that make you feel pretty or attractive or even complimented in a way - though it’s rare that someone would admit that they like those kind of stares. Nope. I got the stares of confusion. Where man, woman, and child alike staring are puzzled, and you can feel their curiosity.

David experienced it while trying to find an ATM in the Department of Commerce Building when a security guard was brave enough to question him. Of course, it didn’t help his explination when “the big camera” was not with him at the time. You know. The big camera that looks like it fits on the end of the one leg. So David proceeded to explain that this was, indeed, not a weapon and was instead a single leg of a tripod - named appropriately - a monopod. He then attached the little canon elph powershot s200 to the end of it and extended the leg to its full height to show the security guard how it worked. I can’t imagine how silly it must have felt to hold the little elph camera up on the end of the monopod for a security guard in the entrance to the Department of Commerce building in Washington DC that tiring day in June.