WHAT’S ON U-R CELL PHONE? Eileen Clarke
Greta (left) and younger sister Annie with the jackrabbit Greta “drilled at 69 paces.” Too bad the girls didn’t take a photo of their dad. He probably was more excited than Greta.
have discovered the Mythical Elephant’s Graveyard (MEG). Or at least the place from which no im- ages of elephant – or anything else – will ever leave. It’s your cell phone. In order to distract us from bad connections and lost calls, they’ve added a camera. And boy have we been clicking away. Think your cell-photos are worthy of National Geographic? Think again. Your cell camera takes only skeletal photos and that little device and its pocket-lint-gath- ering lens has now become the boneyard of every image you’ve ever taken on it. Because if you’re like everyone else, you can’t download, forward, or send your images anywhere else. (Though obviously, we can “save.” A dubious achievement in this era of 0% interest.) So we have trekked to the Mutia Escarpment with or without our 21st Century Tarzan and it is a low-rez, cell phony Point & Shoot. What sort of
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“I’d like to update you all on our girls. Thanks for indulging a Daddy loony. Annie will be 8 years in late August, tonight we went out with the goal of her shooting her first jack without my aid, she did it! Take care and thanks again, Tedd”
skeletons are buried in this elephant graveyard? Paper, despite its techno- anachronicity, is the most popular thing to save digitally.
Take my friend Jay.
We were visiting with Jay and his wife, Bev, who had just returned from Florida, after the birth of their second grandson. Bev had baby photos on her cell phone, and was showing them off. Ooh, Ah, cute boy, and Jay nudges me. “You should see this,” he says, and pops his cell phone open: It’s a target. I’m expecting more baby photos, and it’s a target. One of his black powder rifles had shot incredibly well. I said, “Hey, I’d like to have that photo,” and Jay an- swered, “I don’t know how to do that.” He’s not alone. A quick survey at the Bozeman Gun Show last month proved that. Brian Gouse is a firearms engraver. He had a table at the show. He also has a Web site, an iPad and
a smart phone, all with examples of his artwork downloaded onto them. I asked him to send one or two to me. Partly to see if he could do it, but partly because he’s going to engrave my ’60s era 243 Husqvarna and I needed some inspiration.
“I wouldn't be able to send them to your phone as I have never sent a text before.”
I didn’t know how to answer him. I didn’t have an iPhone or smart phone, nor did I know if photos were actually text messages. I didn’t have a clue. “I think my wife can do it.” Before I left him to his quandary,
Brian showed me a cell phone photo of his bird dogs, two Braque-Francaise/ Boykin crosses, eating field peas from a bush. I recognized the short legs of the Boykin but nothing else. (If I had a rare breed I’d probably carry a photo around with me, too.) But then he men-
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