Have you ever done some crazy stuffs in order to take certain shots with your camera, stuffs that require you to pose/act/behave less than ordinary? Not everyone shares the same passion for photography. I’ve encountered some people who pooh-poohed the notion of spending so much money on camera gears, while some, whose aims are to buy a camera lens a year.

A couple of days ago, I was visiting some friends in Bavaria and we were doing some very touristy stuffs around the very beautiful town of Bamberg (will write more on this later). There’s this must-visit lovely Gothic-style church on the itinerary, whose interior was a tad too dim for the camera, even though it was bright daylight outside, making it rather difficult to capture the elegant interior of the church.

There were however some plain glass windows built high up near the ceiling of the church, allowing shafts of sunlight to create some pools of lights along the pews. Then an idea dawned upon me to have a friend of mine to pose in the small pool of sunlight and she cheerily played along to have a picture of hers taken. I like this picture very much.

We weren’t being disrespectful nor sacrilegious to the church as we were simply taking pictures, right ? Then there were these group of Germans sitting on a pew beside the spot bathed in the rays of sunlight where we posed, amusing themselves while observing us. They were trying unsuccessfully to suppress their chuckles out of our ear shots.

Well, what shall I say? Sometimes we’d have to be thick-faced enough to get the perfect shot, agree? I think we scurried out of the church in no time after that .