On Jul 28, 2010, at 7:22 PM, frank theriault wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:31 PM, P N Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> >> On Jul 28, 2010, at 3:08 PM, frank theriault wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Taken while paddling on an Adirondack lake on July 4 weekend. I was very >>>> impressed by how well the K7 handled the exposure. >>>> >>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11326995&size=lg >>>> >>>> (K7, FA 24-90) >>> >>> Wish I were there. Sigh... >>> >>> ;-) >>> >>> Of course I'd rather be taking the photo than killing innocent >>> wildlife >> >> Innocent? Hardly. Fish are the handmaidens of the devil. They can only >> redeem themselves by prostrating themselves before us on a plate. >> >>> <g,d&r>, but it's a wonderful photo of an idyllic scene. >>> And, yeah, the exposure is amazing! >>> >>> cheers, >>> frank >>> >>> ps: I know there are those who practice catch and release, but were I >>> a fish I'd prefer going through life without a hole (or scar) on the >>> side of my mouth. >> >> Seriously, the mouths of most fish are a bony construction backed by a thin >> film that seems able to take a hook without significant damage. Since men >> have been fishing with hooks for perhaps millions of years that my well be a >> product of evolution. On the other hand, I don't really see the logic of >> catch and release. To me, fishing purely for enjoyment is less acceptable on >> a moral level than fishing for food. However, I have no deep problem either >> way and have done both. Grace and I plan on hitting the one of the local >> lakes again next week. We will probably catch only bluegills, thereby >> helping to thin out an overpopulation. >> Paul > > Well, I don't have as big a problem with fishing as with hunting. I > try ('though I sometimes fail) to be non-judgmental about people's > choice to eat meat (including fish), and let's face it, if we eat it, > we gotta kill it first. Catching fish on a hook and line seems to me > to be far less cruel than what goes on in most meat factories (and by > that I include feedlots and abattoirs). > > So you and Grace go have fun! I know we'll see photos. > > When I used to fish I never caught anything anyway, so it ended up > being a nice day on a sunny lake in a boat. That's why I prefer > having a camera these days! > > ;-) > > cheers, > frank
I usually prefer a camera as well. And when I took my kids fishing back in the eighties, we rarely caught anything. (Although my oldest son and I caught two big rainbow trout in Rocky Mountain National Park one year when I was there on production. We had a condo, so I cooked them and we ate them. Spectacular.) But last time out Grace and I caught and released about a dozen bluegills that were just a bit too small for the table. She was thrilled. And all the bluegills seemed to swim off as though nothing had happened. I just wrote an article about crossbow hunting for the in-house magazine of a major sports store. I found it depressing. All the literature on the web talks about "the kill" and a "through shot," which means through the heart of the deer. Kind of gross and extremely unfeeling. What's worse is that I'm sure I there are a lot of deer running around out there with arrows in their butt or worse. I avoided the gross terminology and focused on the equipment and location scouting. I would rather not write in that genre, but it was for a major client, and I can't pick and choose if I want to continue to earn a living. Paul > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > 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.
