RE: How do you beat the blahs?
I am intimately aware of post-partum (we call it post-natal) depression. My apologies if anyone you know has suffered from it. My suggestion was merely a light hearted thought. Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 12 July 2002 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do you beat the blahs? In a message dated 7/11/2002 7:44:22 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd agree with everything that's been said to date, but the definitive answer is... Have a baby. You're not familiar with post-partum depression at all, I take it? ERNR My photographs hang on the virtual walls at http://members.aol.com/ernreed - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: How do you beat the blahs?
In a message dated 7/12/2002 2:25:12 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am intimately aware of post-partum (we call it post-natal) depression. My apologies if anyone you know has suffered from it. That's okay -- I'm over it now. My suggestion was merely a light hearted thought. Yes -- let's move on! ERNR My photographs hang on the virtual walls at http://members.aol.com/ernreed - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
RE: How do you beat the blahs?
:) Lukasz -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Tainter Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do you beat the blahs? What did you do to beat the blahs? Buy some gear. Shopping is always the answer. Joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
RE: How do you beat the blahs?
Yes Pat, for about 10 years! Then I joined the PDML, and the discussions and the PUG opportunity revived it for me. Working to an assignment is s much better than just waiting for it to happen. John Coyle Brisbane, Australia On Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:53 AM, Patrick White [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I've been in a blah mood photographically speaking these days. Nothing I seeing seems interesting enough to take a picture of. Last year I couldn't find the time to take all the pictures I wanted to. This year I can't figure out why I should snap the shutter on anything. Anyone else ever had a similar bout of the blahs? What did you do to beat the blahs? thanks, patbob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: How do you beat the blahs?
For me this is very simple. It's a bit like cooking - which I also enjoy very much, but as we all know can be impossible to do when it really needs to get done. If I've got the Cooking Blahs, I pick up a book of, or watch an ancient VHS tape of a once-famous UK cook called Keith Floyd. Notorious for slurping the vino while he threw together the most amazing delicacies, his exuberant series of shows on the subject instantly gets the culinary juices going, and before you can say 'moules marinieres', I'm in that kitchen like a rat up a drainpipe. Similarly, with the Photo Blahs, I reach for one of my books by Jeanloup Sieff, Arnold Newman, Jane Bown, and hey presto. Especially the Jeanloup Sieff, where I instantly get a craving to be slinking around the streets of 1950s Paris, Gitane in mouth, Leica in hand, on my way to photograph a nice 'bum in the sun'... My life as a holodeck character :-) But at least it gets the old juices flowing, and it's only by studying the work of accomplished masters I find that I am spurred into some sort of action. HTH Cotty ___ Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the UK Macintosh ads http://www.macads.co.uk - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: How do you beat the blahs?
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Patrick White wrote: Anyone else ever had a similar bout of the blahs? What did you do to beat the blahs? I can't drive, which cuts down the available things to photograph. Especially when you've done your best to take a picture of everything you can find around you of remote interest. So, last weekend I started using my 4x5 to take macro shots of things in the backyard. This weekend I'm going to pick up some paper and additional chemicals, and begin doing contact prints. I think my new thing is to do a series of contacts, mount them all together (which'll be a whole new thing to learn and spend money on, sigh), and give them away as little, uhm what to call them, photo essays? Maybe try and pick things I know family members like or would like, and give them 4 4x5 contacts in a frame. That sort of thing. In other words, same old junk, but whole new way to look at them. -- http://www.infotainment.org The destructive character is cheerful. - Walter Benjamin - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
RE: How do you beat the blahs?
I'd agree with everything that's been said to date, but the definitive answer is... Have a baby. :-) Simon I've been in a blah mood photographically speaking these days. Nothing I seeing seems interesting enough to take a picture of. Last year I couldn't find the time to take all the pictures I wanted to. This year I can't figure out why I should snap the shutter on anything. Anyone else ever had a similar bout of the blahs? What did you do to beat the blahs? thanks, patbob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
How do you beat the blahs?
I've been in a blah mood photographically speaking these days. Nothing I seeing seems interesting enough to take a picture of. Last year I couldn't find the time to take all the pictures I wanted to. This year I can't figure out why I should snap the shutter on anything. Anyone else ever had a similar bout of the blahs? What did you do to beat the blahs? thanks, patbob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: How do you beat the blahs?
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Patrick White wrote: Anyone else ever had a similar bout of the blahs? What did you do to beat the blahs? Yes, sometimes I feel that way, blahs. I usually surf the net to watch photographs made by other photographers. Sometimes it gives a lot of ideas which I can use with some modifications in the future photographic ventures. This cheers me a lot. Cheers, Ayash. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
RE: How do you beat the blahs?
-Original Message- From: Patrick White Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:53 PM I've been in a blah mood photographically speaking these days. Nothing I seeing seems interesting enough to take a picture of. Last year I couldn't find the time to take all the pictures I wanted to. This year I can't figure out why I should snap the shutter on anything. Anyone else ever had a similar bout of the blahs? What did you do to beat the blahs? thanks, patbob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Patbob, I am fortunate to have a couple of friends who are getting interested in photography. One has Pentax gear, some of mine too, the other Canon. Anyway, I can get them to go do some shooting. One is far from here, but we have started a PUG-like theme assignment between the two of us. But once they begin to ask questions I start to get the spark back in me. Though I must admit that I rarely get the blahs photographically. I will hit situations that are blah in terms of photos then I cheat and use the digital to get something taken. But I just enjoy taking photos. With someone else involved you can compare perspectives and what each of you notice. I will also take out some gear that I don´t usually use, like the screwmount stuff and take photos with that. A change of the routine is always good. Tonight I borrowed the squadron´s Nikon D1H digital SLR to take shots at their intramural softball game. I surely missed the flare resistance of Pentax lenses though. Hope this gives you some ideas, César Panama City, Florida - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
