One evening last week I grabbed my camera bag and headed down to the park. Whenever I have a bit of free time I like to go there to see if there is anything to photograph. I take pictures of birds, butterflies, flowers, anything beautiful that catches my eye. The sun would be setting soon and as it dropped on the horizon the golden light would perfect.
I was walking around the pond looking for frogs or dragonflies along the edge of the water when I noticed someone approaching. A very pretty young lady stopped to ask me what I was doing. I showed her my camera and a few of the photos I had taken. She introduced herself as Amanda and told me that she was at a party but it had gotten boring so she left early and was walking home.
She stayed for a while and we chatted as she helped me to find things to photograph. While I was lying down on my stomach to get a better angle on a grasshopper she had found she asked me an interesting question. She wanted to know what motivated me to take pictures. I told her that when I see beauty I like to capture it.
Just then she spotted a dragonfly sitting on a large rock. We approached slowly hoping to get a good close up but it flew off when Amanda’s shadow fell across it and spooked it. ‘Too bad’ she said ‘that’s one beauty you’re not going to capture.’
‘You can’t get them all’ I said.
‘I feel bad about scaring it’ she said. ‘Maybe I could sit on the rock and pretend to be a dragonfly’ she joked.
‘I would love to capture you’ I answered.
As she climbed onto the rock she smiled as if something had amused her. She sat and said to me ‘I just had a funny thought. When you said you would love to capture me I imagined a real capture not just a photo. Isn’t that strange?’
‘Not as strange as you might think’ I replied ‘I’d love to do that too.’
‘You’re kidding right?’ she asked ‘You wouldn’t really do that would you?’
‘Sure I would but not like a real kidnapping or anything like that, just for fun.’
She smiled again and said ‘that does sound like it could be fun, being captured right here in the park. It’s too bad we’ll never know.’
It was my turn to smile as I reached into my bag and pulled out a handful of rope.