Very good > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On > Behalf Of Larry Colen > Sent: 10 November 2009 07:24 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: But what are you taking pictures for? > > I was having so much fun taking pictures on my drive home, > that by 1:30 or so I was still fifty miles south of Los Bano > and had to pull over for a nap. After my nap, while I was > adding nitrates to the soil, I noticed how cool Orion looked > juxtaposed with a telephone pole. After I got some frames of > that, a couple other things caught my eye. > > It was about quarter of three, I was 50-100m down the road, > just finishing up, when I noticed a cop car parked next to my > car. He had stopped to make sure that it hadn't been > abandoned. The laptop on the seat assured him of that. He > was, however, utterly perplexed at what someone was doing, at > that time of night, in the suburbs of nowhere, taking > pictures. The phrase "But what are you taking pictures *for*?" > kept coming up. > > I asked him if he ever took pictures just because they were pretty? > Nope. > Do you paint? > Nope. > Make music? > Nope. > > Would you like to see them? > OK. > > We got to my camera just as the bracketed set was finishing > up, and I put one of the shots on the display. > > "Cool!" > > I've narrowed the myriad of bracketed shots from that session > down to 14, I still have some work to do: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622649186149/ > > Unfortunately, there seems to be a bit of dust on the sensor, > which I've cropped out in a couple of them: > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622649186149/ > > > > -- > The first step is learning to take great photos, the second > step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com > http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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.
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