Larry these are great - make me wonder how stupid I am to sleep at night... Cheers Ecke
2009/11/10 Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com>: > 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. > -- 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.
