The Sluggard

April 24, 2016 • 2:30 pm

’Tis the voice of the Sluggard: I heard him complain,
‘You have waked me too soon! I must slumber again!’

—Isaac Watts (1715)

h/t: Matthew Cobb

 

16 thoughts on “The Sluggard”

    1. Ants get stomped on, crocs don’t. They don’t have to scurry around for anybody. 🙂

  3. Pictures of a critter are great. But pictures that tell a story? Better. Pictures that support a punchline and make me laugh? Even gr8tr.

  6. Pardon my skepticism, but somehow I don’t think the ripples on the water remained stationary for 40 minutes. So apparently a flash was triggered at some point during that interval.

      1. Yes, it’s a 40-minute exposure of star trails. But is it a 40-minute exposure of the croc? The ripples suggest that the croc was illuminated for only a fraction of a second.

        If the photographer says the croc was motionless the entire time, I’m willing to take his word for it. But I’m not sure the photo provides unassailable evidence of that.

        1. No, your right. The way to make this picture is to hold on the stars for several hours and then trigger the flash to pick up the croc. The point is, there’s no rule saying you can’t do that. It’s standard practice. I don’t think any fraud is intended. If there is then sue him or her.

          1. These are good points. But another trick they use is a long exposure plus a dim flashlight to slowly paint in the foreground. There is no flash in that case.

        2. Regardles of how the foreground was captured, question is, did the photog know the croc was there before setting up?

  7. Isaac Watts’ miserable poem would be forgotten today but for Lewis Carroll’s parody:

    ’Tis the voice of the lobster: I heard him declare
    “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.”
    As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
    Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
    …

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