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Making every house a fun house

Watts Hall, Union Theological Seminary
Brook Road near Westwood Avenue

As seen through the fishy eye.

It's been too icky outside to troop around on the floodwall, so I've mostly been shooting interiors. But the clouds rolled back a little this afternoon when I was driving down Brook Road and, not knowing when (or if) I'd ever again see Watts Hall bathed in perfect afternoon light, I had to stop. This was not the most distorted picture (I could just about make the building look like a big Victorian gumdrop), but it had the prettiest sky.

The fisheye is a lot of fun and gives a major funhouse effect to those boring holiday pictures of people opening gifts. My mom said, "Why do you want all that distortion?" So I photographed some random thing in her house and showed her the picture on the screen. Heh. Then it was, "Oh! Cool! Take a picture of this!" I think I took, like, ten shots of a little teddy bear beside a miniature Christmas tree. One of them came out pretty well …

Also, people who whinge about getting their picture taken will ham it up relentlessly for the fisheye. I think I've hit on something there.