The assignment said to get pictures of...

The assignment said to get pictures of people preparing for sexiest

kilt contest at Muldoon’s Dublin Pub.

It sounded funny, but when I got to the pub there were only two

guys in kilts and the judges were having lunch. There was nothing

going on. The assignment wasn’t happening and it was turning into a

picture we call “portraitizing.” When nothing is happening you can

always take a portrait of someone involved in the event -- boring.

So, I took a shot of the two guys in kilts.

After making a picture, I was talking with the organizers of the

event when I noticed one of the kilt guys was cradling his daughter

wrapped in the kilt; munching on a bottle. For some reason, I felt it

said more than two guys standing in kilts trying to look sexy.

Nothing against those guys.

-- Don Leach