DUMBO

This is DUMBO, the most photographed part of Brooklyn. A magical place, where precious film and shutter actuations are conspicuously squandered for no purpose other than just because. And why the hell not? It affords me my next favorite thing besides photography: scaring unsuspecting strangers.

They did not expect me to whip out the photon snatcher as they passed by. He must have though it was a double-u-em-dee, what with them Homeland Insecurity standard issue x-ray shades.

He became very self-conscious of himself as I was stealing their photo, though I’d be too if I was dressed like that, having my photo taken with graffiti in the background, looking like I just wandered into a neighborhood where they hunt my kind for the oils in the skin.

“Is that a photon snatcher I see?”