2008/10/3 William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Savage" > Subject: Re: PESO: Eye Candy > > > >> >> I was tempted by the wider glass for a while. But I use my 6x7 so >> infrequently... > > The last time my 6x7 kit was used was several years ago by the studio owner > I work with. I think I already had the istD, so it was probably in 2004. The > DSLRs didn't have the resolution yet for what he needed, so he used the 6x7. > I used it in the spring of 2003 to photograph the an overview of a poker > tournament at our local casino (a great story about security guard stupidy > came from this one *). > Prior to that, I haven't used it for much of anything since the fall of > 2002. > > *So, I got sent out to shoot some overviews of a large card room where a > bunch of wannabe card sharps were playing Texas Hold'em (whatever, I know > nothing of this stuff). > Everything was arranged, I had been assigned a time to arrive, and a window > of time to shoot in. I got to the casino when I was supposed to, and checked > in with the person I was supposed to check in with, and was ushered to a > wrap around balcony and was told to go crazy, but could I please not take > longer than a half hour or so. > Security person #1 buggers off. > I notice, as I am setting up that I have attracted the attention of some > security drones on the floor below me. > Security goon #2 comes up and asks me what I am doing. I explain that I am > photographing the room, and gave him the name of the contact person at the > casino. > He goes away and confers with another goon. > Security goon #3 comes along and points vaguely at someone on the floor who > might show up as a coloured blob at best (probably 200 feet away) and tells > me that I can't have that person in my photographs. > At this point I have pretty much run out of patience with these morons. > I tell him that I am contracted to be there and that his bosses are paying > me to be there, doing what I am doing, and if said person doesn't want to be > in my pictures, perhaps a half hour trip to the bathroom might be in order > for her, and that he could make himself very useful by getting the hell out > of my way, and perhaps escort the unwilling subject to said bathroom. > This went over well...... > So, he gets a little more pompous with me and starts blathering about how > she is a member of the CIA and that her cover could be blown if there are > pictures of her. > At this point, I completely lost it on the guy, telling him that presuming > he wasn't completely full of shit, I wouldn't really care if a foriegn spy's > cover got blown, what the hell was she spying on at a casino in Asshole > Saskatchewan, and that I was, in reality, an agent for the FBI checking on > criminal gambling activities on foreign soil by members of the CIA, that he > was close to blowing my cover, and that if he did, I'd see to it that his > security guard days were over and that he'd end up in the next cell over > from the "CIA agent".
LOL > It's not just on the PDML that I am a complete jerk. MARK! Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
