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    Senior Member Anbesol's Avatar
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    Flipping birds...

    One of the perks of being a photographer, is all the countless birds that get flipped towards you. Something about the camera just inspires that impulse in people. It always makes some statement in the image as well, good stuff. Lets start a thread with bird flippers, heres a few I dug up today.













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    Re: Flipping birds...

    HAHA! I stumbled across another pair while digging around. FYI It must be said, the 2 children depicted doing this were not taught to do this. The girl was just relaxing and just happened to choose to hold her chin up with that finger, the boy got a "boo-boo" on his finger and he was showing me which finger was hurting. But, everybody else was pretty well aware of what the middle finger means.



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    Re: Flipping birds...

    I've never been flipped one while shooting (now driving - that's a whole different story )

    I guess I'll have to start asking them.
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    Re: Flipping birds...

    my buddy between shooting his daughter...classy...
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    Re: Flipping birds...

    Loupey - You get flipped off while driving? Is that a frequent thing lol? I am surprised that you don't get flipped the bird more frequently, I assumed it was just a common thing with photographers, I guess its just my special charms that inspire that bird-flipping sentiment, haha!

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    Re: Flipping birds...

    Yeah, his brother coined it as the new Kramer!
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    Re: Flipping birds...

    Quote Originally Posted by Anbesol View Post
    Loupey - You get flipped off while driving? Is that a frequent thing lol? I am surprised that you don't get flipped the bird more frequently, I assumed it was just a common thing with photographers, I guess its just my special charms that inspire that bird-flipping sentiment, haha!
    I despise rude drivers and bad drivers and I let them know that they are rude drivers and/or bad drivers. I'd say that this results in over 90% success rating of getting the bird as a response.
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    Re: Flipping birds...

    When I was a kid and went to concerts everyone was about peace signs, now go to a concert and it's all about the bird, lol.
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    Re: Flipping birds...

    Anbesol, LOVE that very last shot you posted! The kid's expression is perfect! :lol:

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    Re: Flipping birds...

    lol thanks, thats my boy!

    Jet - any bird flippin pics? I thought that the flipped bird was a very common photography thing, lol, maybe I am just so inspiring that way! lol.

    Greg - I went to rockfest this year, didn't see a whole ton of birds, mostly just devil horns. Not a single peace sign though lol, the peace sign has been replaced by devil horns. Hmmm, a sign of the times, maybe.

    Loupey - Where I am, the roads are so flat and straight, the whole street system is on a grid-line with huge lanes and streetlights lighting up every bit of pavement. It really doesn't take a whole lot of brains to drive on these roads, all of those factors make driving pretty easy, so road rage is fortunately a rarity around here.

    I'll soon be driving in the mountains in Utah, where people think its just plain peachy to ride 12 inches behind you going 55 zigging around the side of a mountain cliff. They may look at me and think I'm a lousy tourist, but I only want to comply with speed limits and the rules of the road, which I think many natives think are just silly suggestions.
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