Idle Threats
Bighorn Canyon, Montana
2022
If you’ve ever had a dog, then you have likely had incidents where your dog sees some unfamiliar object in a familiar environment and starts barking at it, thinking it to be, I suppose, a threatening critter of some sort. I never felt like barking at this unusual dachshund/giraffe shaped stick that was in the parking lot near where we were camping but I did do a double-take every time it came across my vision.
This is a common problem many photographers have. I am sure it must be some disease of the brain.
Given the similarity to what dogs seem to experience, perhaps it should be called the canine photographer syndrome (although unlike dogs, photographers don’t generally see such things as threats)?