funkypancake

jane took the great photo of me missing head. i love those kinds of shots.

they were taking down the ancient lights along the southbank when i walked by yesterday morning

the chap doing the deed seemed to have no head

so, it's goodbye to the old

another bird appearing to have no head. this picture looks a bit better bigger, so don't be frightened to click it

here it is half a second later (proving it does have a head)

this is a fancy breed of chicken which has mad feathers on its head preventing people from seeing its face. unfortunately it also gives the appearance that its head has been chopped off ! (which it hadn't)

i thought i already had a category for headless photos, but i can't seem to find it. anyway, this was a deliberate photo for that category which now exists.

the concept being that in the digital world there's no excuse for ever publishing a photo like this as you can bin it straight away. i like the idea of deliberately making them instead.

it's another picture from jeremy, this time of a hat wearing a bollard.

i'm pleased to be able to put this photo in three categories - hats, bollards ...

... and chopped off heads:

the world of digital cameras with little displays has resulted in a significant reduction in the amount of photos of people with their heads missing.

i think it's time we take deliberate action and start chopping heads off again. here's my first attempt. i was quite pleased.

one really easy way of taking more heads-chopped off photos is to always use this technique when tourists ask you to take their photos outside a famous london landmark.

of course i wouldn't be able to bring myself to do that in practice but i like the idea. in fact, someone asked me to take a picture of them in St James' park last week. he handed me his antique plastic camera and asked me to take his photo.

what i should have said is "sorry mate, i only do digital" - but of course i didn't.

perhaps a better way would be to carry little signs with the funkypancake URL on and get tourists to hold it if they ask me to take a photo. now there's a marketing idea ...

perhaps i could use that to get people to sponsor me (hint hint)

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