Barbora Jiřincová

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“How to Take a Picture of a Sad Queen of Spades” by Barbora Jiřincová

Submitted to Contest #273

He took the camera and clicked the shutter just as the swans took to the sky. It was a dreary winter day. It's a winter's day, the kind of winter where toes freeze, but the landscape lacks a comforting blanket of snow. The Vltava flowed no slower than on hot summer days. Swans and ducks flocked to the shore, where tourists and natives scattered crumpled bread across the water's surface for the birds to eat, utterly oblivious that the breadcrumbs poisoned those water birds.The photographer had had enough of ducks, geese, and swans; enough of ...

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