Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Traffic Jam and Chocolate

Ravenel Bridge Towers and Cables, Charleston, SC  © Doug Hickok


A question that I asked myself one day recently was... how should I pass the time while sitting in a rush hour traffic jam on the tall Ravenel Bridge?

Call my buddy Harry Sasquatch to ask him how his big hairy feet are surviving the snow?

(Eat a Winnie-the-Pooh shaped chocolate.)

 Recite Melville's Moby Dick in its entirety from memory? "Call me Ishmael..." Ok, that's all I can remember... and traffic still isn't moving.

(Eat a Tigger shaped chocolate.)

Pull out my Stradivarius and play me some wicked Paganini riffs?

(Eat a Piglet shaped chocolate.)


Work out Einstein's mathematical formula for Energy... backwards, while patting my head with one hand and rubbing my stomach with the other?


(Eat an Eeyore shaped chocolate. Ugh, I ate too much. I feel sick.)

No, wait, I know, take a picture of the bridge with my trusty
Super Kinetic Hyper Reactor Hue Extractor!
Zippo Zappo Gong!
 (That's the sound of the shutter.)

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19 comments:

  1. 黄清华 Wong Ching WahNovember 30, 2011 at 12:39 AM

    Great picture... .but I like the title and wish for chocolate during a traffic jam ! not too much because it is usually 1 to 1.5 hours of traffic jam ...

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  2. GinnieNovember 30, 2011 at 3:02 AM

    HAHAHA. I love the way your mind works, Doug! :)

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  3. brattcatNovember 30, 2011 at 6:41 AM

    i think i need one of those cameras...and a box of those chocolates.

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  4. Kathryn DycheNovember 30, 2011 at 7:00 AM

    Gorgeous pic . . . chocolate always helps!

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  5. yzNovember 30, 2011 at 8:44 AM

    the best way really to overcome the traffic jam :)

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  6. FilipBlogNovember 30, 2011 at 10:09 AM

    It is only the chocolate I like.

    Greetings,
    Filip

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  7. London CallerNovember 30, 2011 at 10:15 AM

    Tell me, D.
    You know why Tigger is always so dirty?














    ... Because he plays with Pooh! ;o)


    Sorry for this delay.
    I was in Belgium sampling the finest chocolates last week.
    Originally, I wanted to get enrolled in a chocolatier course.
    But after reading your entry today, I thought scatology would also make a good choice.

    By the way, did you know that it was the Brits who invented the "Meyers Scale"?
    Not the Belgians. ;o)

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  8. A.BarlowNovember 30, 2011 at 10:45 AM

    nice shot and some sweet lines in this.

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  9. franzNovember 30, 2011 at 11:38 AM

    happily, the chocolate binge hasn't diminished your photographic abilities, doug ;-))
    love the view up and forward and the powerful line elements here! modern architecture and technology do provide us with fascinating subjects - sometimes!
    (thanks once again for your encouraging comment today, doug - all i can do is return it sincerely!)

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  10. Marie LCNovember 30, 2011 at 11:43 AM

    I like your choice of frame. Beautiful details on this intensive blue sky

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  11. VPNovember 30, 2011 at 2:01 PM

    Outrageously beautiful!

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  12. MarcieNovember 30, 2011 at 5:04 PM

    You made me laugh!! And - what a wonderfully framed capture of the bridge!

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  13. AnonymousNovember 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM

    Zippo Zappo Gong, eh? I have got to get me one of those!

    Sequoia

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  14. BirdmanNovember 30, 2011 at 6:29 PM

    How about... "Call you crazy!"

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  15. ChristopherDecember 1, 2011 at 12:05 AM

    What an excellent use of time! Great symmetry, perspective and lines Doug. As always, a thoroughly delightful post.

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  16. Duncan D. Horne - the Kuantan bloggerDecember 1, 2011 at 2:47 AM

    I absolutely love this picture, so much that I've visited your blog twice today!

    Duncan In Kuantan

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  17. JoeDecember 1, 2011 at 3:56 AM

    Very spectacular.

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  18. Traveling HawkDecember 1, 2011 at 3:23 PM

    I think the chocolates gave you the energy for such a good shot:)

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  19. rianDecember 16, 2011 at 10:06 AM

    lol.. you sure know how to keep yourself busy in a traffic jam.. nice capture too!

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