Stakeout

Not every act of photography is creative

Sometimes its purely demonstrative

Such as in the way a homeowner peeks out

From the confines

Of her front porch

Staying on the lookout for a neighbor

Who is illegally dumping in the lot next door.

But in trying to be a neighborhood ambassador

She inadvertently made an enemy out of her neighbor.

Photography is no joke

and its a tool that can change

The course of someone’s day,

Residence,

Or even life

If framed in the wrong way.

Unnatural Surveillance - Cameras situated above traffic lights on Central and Unser in Albuquerque