Hunting for the rest of us

Read on, at some point I discuss guns, an ocelot, and Nazis.

I don't like killing things. As a rule, I try to avoid it. I'll play the occasional video game where it's a stated objective, and one that must be accomplished to achieve any sort of success. But even in that situation I can restart the game and there seems to have been a glorious resurrection of every Nazi or alien monster I previously did away with. This is somehow settling.

And for that reason, the aversion to killing, I don't fully understand hunting. There is one aspect that at least partially appeals to me, and that is the actual hunting part. Not the killing, but the patience and the technique in finding an animal. And then positioning yourself in a place to...and that is where they lose me.

But my idea for today is to design a camera that, in many ways, looks and acts like a rifle. It would be long, and operated with a trigger. And when you take a picture you get the same loud bang you'd hear as if you were firing a real gun. And then to take this camera and design trips around getting the best possible image under the circumstances normally assigned to hunting.

Call it Picture Hunting.

I'd have to imagine it's a pretty small subset of people who would enjoy this, but we all might be surprised.

I fully realize you could just take a regular camera and snap a million pictures of a deer, or rabbit, or ocelot...but where's the challenge in that? This adds a whole new dimension to photography and makes it one hell of a challenge. And it makes that images you do get so much more precious.