Lightning Cam

I hate to be a biatch but this occasion calls for a RANT! A LOUD ONE in fact.

You see... In our team, there's this designated photographer. Everytime we celebrate any of the team members' birthdays or if we have special lunches or special dinners, she's the assigned one to take photographs... Let's call her LightningCam...

There was this once, a few of us from the team were required to submit our group photo to be included in the internal newsletter. All our shots were nicely taken (again by LightningCam)... but since we had some extra time (at the location we were at), somebody casually mentioned that LightningCam should take impromptu candid shots of us so that we appear relaxed and casual! So LightningCam just stood in front of us while we were yakking away and out of a sudden, said OK... Without us noticing, she had taken like 1,000 photos of us talking and laughing animatedly. Needless to say, none of those "candid" shots were selected to be included in the newsletter. It was the nicely planned ones that were shortlisted.

BUT...

Ever since that incident, LightningCam started taking "candid" photos at EVERY DAMN function. The best part was, LightningCam would silently walk around holding her camera and when we're ready to pose, she has completed her photo taking sessions.

Today, she sent out 2 1/2 emails to the team:

• The first one was colleague A's birthday - 14MB of photos (already zipped)
• The second one was colleague B's birthday - a whopping 85MB of photos (again zipped)
• By the time she sent the 3rd one... all of us were already screaming and cursing... Why? Cos (1) Our mailbox was immediately full (2) Our laptops hung while trying to save the super large file (3) LightningCam sent us an SMS saying that our mailbox was FULL when we were desperately trying to save and delete her super big ass mails!!!

After the crazy hassle of trying to save those whopping big files... I opened them one by one and boy was I NOT surprised to see that the photos were all taken without any of us posing for the camera! Out of the thousands of photos that LightningCam took, none really stood out... So don't you think this calls for a LOUD RANT? Sigh...

Here are some sample photos taken by LightningCam... there's 2 versions of me pushing the chair and let me assure you that I did it at a NORMAL pace... which could only mean that LightningCam's camera takes 1,000 shots at a minute:

Here's another one:

Sigh...