Generation

May the force be with you!

My father is an excellent photographer. Runs in the family. My sister and brother have taken excellent photo which have been shown in galleries. But my father is lousy with a video camera. This has been his trait since day one of getting his hands on a video camera. And over the years he has shown zero improvement. Just yesterday he showed the family the video he took when he took a river boat tour in one of the state parks. Just as day one when he opened the box of his first video camera, there were many unfocused scenes, many dizzying blurry quick pans, many shots of the ground, and occasional views of the actual scene in focus, but those were only momentary, jittery and choppy. I don’t know what it is about video cameras and my father, but he seems unable to stay focused on the scene. Kind of reminds me of how off some of my search engine searches are for anything at all, say like the other day when I looked for unlimited golf florida vacations. The results that came were haphazard, and way out of focus from what I needed or even related to the subject. This seems to be more and more of a problem lately; it is as if websites have some kind of technology to deliver the subject you are looking for, and lure you to their sites, and then you find nothing at all related to what you are looking for. I have caught some of the major online stores doing this sort of thing. I think they call that bait and switch.