Last night I attended a wonderful concert put on by our Scottish Highlands Foundation. This concert featured Talitha MacKenzie and Rhiannon Giddens singing a combination of Native American and Gealic songs. During the break, I went to the giftshop to wander around and give my eyes a rest as I had been taking pictures. I shoot with a digital SLR and sometimes it causes my eyes to blur a bit.

While walking around the gift shop a lady walks up besides me and asks if I play the bagpipes. My response was simply "no, I am a photographer, I never learned how to play them." I know that my response was not what she expected. I guess it was then she saw the big camera in my hands. She tried to shift gears and tell me that her nephew plays the bagpipes and a neice plays the drums.

I know she was trying to make small talk and I just happened to be the only other guy there in a kilt. But, even at a celtic event the assumption still stands that if you are in a kilt, you are a piper.

Go figure,

Doc