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--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > From: Bob W <p...@web-options.com> > Subject: RE: But what are you taking pictures for? > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 2:37 AM > 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 > ...@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. > -- 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.
