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Suffering

Gallery: NPN PhotographersPosted July 23, 20091,600 views12 comments

That's me, being attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes - inside each of the green circles you can find a mozzie, and yes, I'm wearing 100% deet. The fact that you can actually see that many mosquitoes in a photo is just scary... it was scary... I thought they would get into my shutter box when changing lenses! And yes, I had a few with dinner. I guess I can laugh about it now

Oh the suffering we go through for our art.

Photo by my friend Raghu.

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Paul Marcellini on July 23, 2009 at 9:08 AM

Come to Miami, our mosquitoes love fresh blood. When we got out of the swamp one of the guys probably had that many on his leg alone. Yeah it makes for a good picture though.

Registered on November 27, 2007, 250 Posts, 2468 Comments

Comment posted by Benjamin Glatt on July 23, 2009 at 2:52 PM

Haha, nice shot. Remember how frustrated I was in the Alabama Hills?--I can't imagine how crazy I would go with this many skeeters.

Registered on July 15, 2007, 171 Posts, 3566 Comments

Comment posted by Stan Rose on July 25, 2009 at 5:21 AM

Ha! You should have circled the big welt on your neck too

I thought i could escape those bastards by heading into the Sand Dunes, but nooo, they even swarm in the sand. The one animal i would shed no tears over if it went extinct!

Registered on September 15, 2005, 836 Posts, 17099 Comments

Comment posted by Paul Inglis on July 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM

Hi Floris,

I hate mozzies!

and can appreciate how you were feeling! I have just returned from a trip around the mediterranean and got bittern allday everyday for a month!

Great image capturing pain!

Good to see you!

Registered on October 23, 2007, 26 Posts, 2832 Comments

Comment posted by Joel DeYoung on August 10, 2009 at 6:01 PM

Wow! now that's a bummer! And I thought I was the only one who attracted the little vampires that much! sometimes when out in the woods photographing dragonflies, I feel that I am almost a quart low on blood leaving

I don't ever think I have had any for dinner though.

Glad you can laugh about it now

Cheers

Registered on July 12, 2009, 92 Posts, 1074 Comments

Comment posted by Eva McDermott on August 15, 2009 at 8:25 PM

I guess we in the northeast sent all the mosquitoes your way this year (usually it is really bad out here, especially in Maine)! Looks bad Floris. My youngest son spent 2 weeks in the Northern Cascades WA and he was eaten alive too!

Registered on January 4, 2009, 1015 Posts, 13229 Comments

Comment posted by Paulo A.Lopes on August 21, 2009 at 8:18 AM

This is funny and the same time a bit scary. I know exactly what you been trough and in fact terrible. Man they look big

Registered on October 14, 2008, 122 Posts, 836 Comments

Comment posted by Varina Patel on August 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM

Life is good, eh? :)

Registered on August 22, 2008, 45 Posts, 1578 Comments

Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on August 31, 2009 at 2:24 PM

Hi Floris!

A few years ago, Dan Baumbach and I were using 4x5's at Mack Lake. It was high summer. It's really disconcerting to be under the dark cloth on a warm summer day with mozzies using the ground glass for a staging area.

It was one of those aethetically pleasing moments of LF photography!

-P

Registered on November 1, 2003, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments

Comment posted by Ingrid Vekemans on September 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM

Seems to me you could laugh about it then, too

I hope it was worth it

Ingrid.

Registered on August 2, 2010, 138 Posts, 780 Comments

Comment posted by Howard Cheek on June 3, 2011 at 7:24 AM

No pain, No gain :)
You seem to be making good fun of it, and having the mozzies in your supper is the ultimate sacrifice..
For the love of art!

Registered on July 24, 2008, 1201 Posts, 10758 Comments

Comment posted by Cristiano Xavier on June 4, 2011 at 8:54 PM

Oh my God !!
This happens to me in south florida too.
I had to run to the car.
Hope everything all right to you .

Registered on May 30, 2011, 10 Posts, 24 Comments