The Master [MxMxM+]

21

     Linder had been struggling with his camera for the longest time and he was getting exhausted with it. For him, this was the most frustrating challenge yet. He was terrible with pictures.

     He'd been fiddling, trying to understand how it worked before he could take his masterpiece. Not that it was necessarily going to be that, in fact there was no way it could be a masterpiece. Not with his blatant lack of skills. But he would still try.

     Of course he knew how to use a camera, he just didn't know how to use it well, and the one he held currently had so many controls as if just to make his life more miserable than it was.

     He stalked little insects all morning, trying to get a decent picture. He wanted a creepy-crawly or even a beautiful bug.

     Normal people would be taking pictures of trees or leaves or shrubbery or even flowers they had an entire large garden for crying out loud. Why am I looking for insects like some anteater?

     And then it struck him, of course there was a pond somewhere in the garden. It was perfect, there was probably lots of dragonflies hovering around. Bingo!

     Linder arrived at the garden to find a tiny swarm hovering over the pond just like he thought. He quickly got to work and took his first picture of them.

     He looked at the dragonfly in his camera. What an ugly picture. He thought.

     He fiddled with the settings and tried again. Someone was going to have to explain to him how the next picture he took was pitch black when it was broad daylight. Frustration furrowed his eyebrows.

     He saw the shadow before he heard the voice. It looked closer then stopped. "Thought that would be you," it said.

     Linder was a little shocked but he knew the voice. It had to be...

     "What are you doing here? Hi!"

     "I just happened to be around the area," Tadashi smiled at him for the first time. "Let me see that," he said making for the camera that Linder willingly put in his hand.

     After studying the two pictures for a while, he spoke. "This is awful."

     "I know, right?" Linder answered, agreeing with him. "Who knew using an actual camera could be so hard?"

     "It's pretty easy," Tadashi tried to persuade him. "Come on, I'll show you."

     Oh thank God.

     Linder was hooked onto every word the man uttered, absorbing like a sponge. The camera had looked so complex but it was actually really simple. Or at least he made it seem that way.

     He couldn't understand just how perfectly he explained every single control in less than five minutes.

     "Here's the last trick," Tadashi said. "You could just press this button halfway and it'll activate autofocus first. What are you trying to capture, a dragonfly?" He asked.

     "Or two," Linder replied. "I'm doing it to myself, God knows the little stubborn things can't stay in one place for too long."