Ryan,
Okay, so my life ~is~ dull after all. At least it's not sedentary. <g>
No, when I took the photo, is was hand holding my little Minolta HiMatic F. Didn't want to risk an expensive camera zipping through traffic with one hand on the bar. <g>
Just held the camera and snapped with one hand. I was holding the camera around waist high, not looking through the viewfinder. Took several, but that was the best one.
Nope, no night shots, but that's a great idea!! I got out of the habit of bringing that cam in my courier bag - gotta get back into the habit of bringing it with me at all times.
Geez, Ryan, you really should get out there and do some interesting, off-the-wall stuff, eh? <vbg>
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: "Ryan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fully manual SLR Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:34:49 +1000
My life including mountain-biking, 60+kmh downhill inline skating, occasionally skating down staircases too, hockey, outdoor rockclimbing, abseiling down waterfalls, and more recently added one off, yacht racing (thanks to a friend who was short of a man weekends ago), tempered with big stressful essays like Buddhist art its political implications, occasionally mucking about on my jazzy little thinline electric guitar and occasionally taking pictures of weird people jumping out of trees, just felt like a poor effort when I heard that somone I knew personally, was soaring round the Swiss alps in a flimsy parachute like thingo (at first I thought it was the one in the giant sock, but can't think of what that's called..) taking pictures at fridge temperature more than 4000 metres high. (Not to mention someone else I know cycled down a 4 storey escalator and while I couldn't keep my eyes in my head, my camera was being cold and lonely at home!) -i think i need some fresh air- (morale isn't improved knowing most of you smirkers are going to have lots of it come GFM..) *green with envy, or assignment fever*
About Laurent's winged photographic escapades, I'll get the details as soon as he mails me back (which I hope won't be too long- if I were doing what he's doing, my computer will be the neglected device of choice..)
Cheers, Ryan
PS. Frank, was that the one taken mounted on the bike? Very nice- sure does capture the feeling cycling between traffic! Got any night ones?
----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:32 AM Subject: Re: Fully manual SLR
> Hmph:
>
> My life's anything but dull:
>
> http://urbancaravan.com/images/bike_couriers_life.JPG
>
> But seriously, Ryan, that's one cool photo! Get details, and let us know!
>
> cheers,
> frank
>
> "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist
> fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Ryan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Fully manual SLR
> >Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 01:19:40 +1000
> >
> >A friend of mine, Laurent, who just returned to Lausanne just emailed me
> >this pic and if I ever get the chance, I'll convince him to get me up
there
> >with him. Seems a bit high? It was more than 4000 metres in his
paraglider.
> >Not quite sure what camera it was or how cold it was, but I've asked him
> >for
> >details. I suspect it was one of those point and click digitals. Still.
> >Very
> >impressed. Is your life looking dull and uninspired? :)
> >
> >http://home.iprimus.com.au/heygoose/LaurentBusenhart0108-59.jpg
> >
> >Regards,
> >Ryan
> >
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "frank theriault"
> > > Subject: Re: Fully manual SLR
> >
> > > > >I was testing them under about the most extreme conditions
> > > possible.
> > > > >It was something like -43ºC, <snip>
> >
> >
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