Why Can’t You Just Hold That Camera Still?

All Hail The Camera Shakers

By Dorraine Fisher - TCC Team member

            One of the biggest complaints you hear about the belief in creatures like Bigfoot is that there are never any completely believable pictures or video. Every one of them can be scrutinized in some way.  Day after day we look at blobsquatch, after shaky video, after blobsquatch, hoping it’ll be the next big money shot that’ll convince the world the creature really exists. But somehow it never does. We never seem to get that pure HD clarity we’re all hoping for.

            And I’m guilty of complaining myself. I don’t know how many videos I’ve watched, exasperated about all the shaking. Why can’t they just hold the friggin’ camera still, I ask myself? In light of the great importance of finding proof the elusive creature exists, is that too much to ask?

            Well, if we try to be fair and really think about it a little deeper, we need to be a little more forgiving. I’ve taken numerous hikes over the years and numerous animals have crossed my path, and even though, fairly often, I had a camera in my hand, I have precious few pictures to prove I ever saw anything.

            Why?

            Because when I see them, I’m either scared to death, mesmerized, or frozen in my tracks. And I’m quite sure if some dangerous creature like Bigfoot crossed my path, and if I did manage to actually aim the camera, I wouldn’t be able to hold it any more still than anyone else. In fact, I’d likely drop in and just stand there staring, frozen in place like an idiot.  And I’d be hoping to heaven that the hairy guy really isn’t dangerous like so many believe.

            So now when I’m looking at all these pictures and video every day, I try to be a little less critical. Some of them are hoaxes, of course, where the shaking is meant to conceal and deceive.  And we always have to be skeptical about what we see.

            But we also have to be open to the possibility that some of these are real events that happened to lucky people who were understandably scared to death, breathless, and of course, shaking like a leaf. And we should all consider ourselves extremely lucky they got such amazing footage for us at all.

            So all hail the camera shakers! What would we do without them?

            We’d be bored stiff. *********

DF