rolling in dirt

i was playing around with the camera. everybody does it.

either you have played with the camera, are playing with the camera, or will play with a camera in the near future. and no, i do not mean in the perverted sense. i am not referring to taking a picture of your buttcrack or studying the porportion of your penis. i am not referring to examining yourself naked or trying to view the uncharted region under your tit, and i do mean tit. no, i am simply talking about playing with the camera. taking a picture of your hand because you never really looked at it without thinking of it as YOUR hand. i am talking about taking a picture of your eyes, because you never stared in them before. tonight, i was taking pictures of the left side of my face, my eyebrows, my inner ear, my facial expressions, and my fingers.

then i discovered the timer.

i was taking shots from the viewpoint of the floor, with me looking down. i got some shots from the ceiling, with me looking up. and vice versa. it had me entertained for i don't know how long. most i deleted. others, i kept. all and all, the event served its purpose of allowing me to gain a new perspective of myself, and kill some time.

however...the picture here was something of an exception. i really liked it at first. i set the timer, then i just started doing stuff. jerking this way and that way, walking back and forth, singing and acting - just trying to get a good action shot. i don't remember what i was doing when the flash went off, but the picture here is the result.

in my fascination with the picture, i went to show the significant other...often referred to as MoMo. and the first thing out of her mouth was, "nice pic, why is your shirt so dirty?" and when i went back to look at it, my shirt WAS dirty!! but then i looked back down at the shirt (because i was still wearing it), and it looked clean. i went to a well lit room, held it up close, smelled it...everything was fine! why did it look dirty??? why did the camera say i was a dirty shirt wearer???

but why?!

even now, as i type this, i have no answer. sure i wore the shirt once or twice before, but that's no reason why it looks dirty only on camera. it doesn't make sense!! it doesn't make sense at all. not at all. not at all.