January 27, 2013

Captain Butterfly – Visual Fiction #16

You think you’re in control, don’t you? “Look!” you say. “A butterfly! Let me see if I can take a picture.” You get the camera out slowly, marveling that I’m not moving at all. And then, snap! you get a picture.

What you don’t know is that while I’ve been posing for you, my little ant friends have been untying your shoes. You start to walk away, notice your shoes, and bend down to re-tie them. This gives my sparrow comrades a stationary target to dive-bomb with poop.

Now you’re really getting annoyed, but you take off your pack and jacket to clean them off. While you’re distracted, the chipmunks and spiders get to work unzipping your pack and searching for all the best little goodies you’ve got stored away.

An hour later, you stop for lunch and think, “Huh, I thought I packed a sandwich.”

You did. Thanks for the chow, loser.

taken on Sapshido Island, Korea

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This entry was posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2013 at 12:20 pm and tagged with animals, butterfly, Korea, nature, photograph, theft, visual fiction and posted in Visual Fiction. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

13 responses to “Captain Butterfly – Visual Fiction #16”

deanabo
January 27th, 2013 at 12:25 pm

This is terrific! It had me laughing.

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- David Stewart
  January 27th, 2013 at 7:04 pm
  
  Thanks! I’m kind of fond of it myself. 🙂
  
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MissFourEyes
January 27th, 2013 at 9:41 pm

hehe, smart little guys, very funny

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Luddy's Lens
January 28th, 2013 at 6:17 am

I KNEW it!!!! And all those times we think we misplace our keys? Nah, that’s the neighbor’s cat taking the vehicle out for joyride…

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- David Stewart
  January 28th, 2013 at 4:43 pm
  
  The whole animal kingdom is against us, I swear.
  
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Eric Alagan
January 28th, 2013 at 1:56 pm

Satiated with a full laugh 🙂

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Sharmishtha Basu
January 28th, 2013 at 2:01 pm

wild life photography!
loved your angle!

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Penelope
January 29th, 2013 at 10:34 pm

This is the reason why I rarely take out my camera. I want to eat my sandwich!

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- David Stewart
  January 29th, 2013 at 10:39 pm
  
  It’s a trade off, to be sure. 🙂
  
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Sharmishtha
January 30th, 2013 at 3:36 pm

i guess i missed the visual fiction part from the title! humble apologies!

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- David Stewart
  January 30th, 2013 at 3:54 pm
  
  🙂 I changed the titles around, so that the title is first and “Visual Fiction” is second. That’s probably why.
  
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The Bumble Files
January 31st, 2013 at 3:50 am

I love this! Who knows…they very well may be working together.

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nightlake
May 7th, 2013 at 7:00 pm

all of them take their turns to get back at you:) This was hilarious

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