HB Bigfoot

[Brian Moore]

In the Himalayas he is known as the Yeti, or the Abominable Snowman. However, in the Americas he is known asBigfoot. This is a Bigfoot sighting I captured on film earlier this year with my Canon F-1 and Kodak Gold 400 film.

I happened to be at the Huntington Beach Library to drop off some books that Sadie had recently read and, since she cannot drive (she being a canine after all) I volunteered to return the books to the library for her. It was closing time and I thought, I'll take a photo of the library exterior in the darkness with only the dim outside lights illuminating the scene.

I cannot recall what shutter speed or aperture I used, but I do recall using the ledge of the car door's lowered window to steady the camera.

I was so engrossed in my assignment I failed completely to notice the passing Bigfoot, whose slightly OOF silhouette I captured. (Yet didn't realize I had until I got the negs back.)

I believe this is the only hard evidence of Bigfoot anywhere south of Oregon.

 

[Pete Askew]

Well done Brian. That is some of the most compelling evidence about the existence if Bigfoot I have seen for a long time. And further evidence of their ability to move through the world with utmost stealth such that the often remain unnoticed until someone is fortunate enough to capture them on film. However, it doesn't look to me like it is heading into the library. Maybe there is something else nearby that has attracted it.

Please to heat that the Library has solved Sadie's reading requirements. Are they any particular subjects / themes she favours?

Oh. and nice shot by the way. Love the grain and the colour cast.

 

[Kev Pugh]

Clearly Sadie has been reading too many mythology titles out loud whilst Brian has been cat napping, this could explain the over furtive imagination to capture the beast

Another nice piece mind.

 

[Brian Moore]

Pete, as you know I did not see the Bigfoot with mine own eyes, so I cannot vouch for his trajectory. However, I am in agreement that he is not heading into the library. His apparent gait and his lean suggest he is cutting a course away from the library. That library, by the way, sits rather picturesquely at the edge of a sizable wooded park. Huntington Central Park, it's called. My guess is that the Bigfoot has either been getting books out of the library and is homeward bound, or else has been on--or is captured during--a foraging expedition. (I believe they are a species of hunter-gatherers.)

As to Sadie's reading preferences,...well she will fairly, er,... "devour" (ha ha!)... a good book. Indeed, she has a,...er,... "voracious appetite" (ha ha!)... for good reading material. Her favorite book so far this year has been E.B. White's "One Man's Meat."

Thank you Pete.

Kev,...thank you for your final comment. However, as to your other allegations,...actually Sadie is a very quiet reader, so whatever reading material she,...er, "consumes" (ha ha!)...she keeps to herself. And as to me, well,...I don't even like cats so why would I steal one?

 

[Chris Dodkin]

You should send this to the Inquirer Brian - or the LA Times!

 

[Brian Moore]

Thanks for the suggestion, Chris. The Times, maybe. But the Enquirer often prints articles slightly outside the mainstream,...so I'd prefer to avoid them.