Location Taken: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Time Taken: June 2010
You ever have one of those days where everything seems tilted?
I had one of those when I visited Sault Ste. Marie (pronounced “Soo Saint Marie”, by the way). We went for a walk along the waterway between Lake Superior and Lake Huron (and between the US and Canada). Lovely sunlight, just enough wind to get small waves in the water, wonderful conditions all around for photography. And most of them came out with the horizon line on one side of the photo noticeably lower than the horizon line on the other side. Mostly tilting to the right, like this one.
This one’s the most egregious, really. I was very carefully lowering my camera on the other side of the railing to get a shot along the shoreline and was much more interested in making sure I didn’t drop it on the rocks and water below than I was about lining the shot up perfectly. It’s not too surprising it tilted.
There are also days where you’re metaphorically tilted as well. The stress and irritants and… stuff… pile up and you feel like you’re just going to keel over at any moment. I usually even make it a little less than metaphorical, since I seem to automatically lean off-center more and more as the stress gets overwhelming.
I had one of those days just a few ago. Thirty hours of driving in four days, averaging four hours of sleep a night just because your body refused to fall asleep and getting more and more off-feeling because you keep having to eat at places that aren’t, shall we say, nutritionally diverse enough for proper body management. I was about ready to fall over at the end of it. Actually, I did fall over, just tipped over on the couch I was sitting on and saw the world from a more horizontal perspective. At least all it took was a decent meal and 12 hours of sleep to get me much more functional again. I’ve had world-tilting times where it took a lot more than that.
This photo, though, shall stay tilted. Well, unless I futz with it in Photoshop some, but you know, I just don’t feel like it. It’s good to acknowledge the tilted times too.
