Re: PESO - The Quiet City
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: Pretty, Frank. Love the colors! Cheers, Christine Thanks, Christine, and thanks to everyone else who looked and commented. cheers, frank -- 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.
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Well seen captured knarF. Wouldn't change a thing. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: PESO - The Quiet City My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- 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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Knickerwetting. MARK ! Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com Subject: Re: PESO - The Quiet City Cotty wrote: On 26/9/10, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: it must hard work with the cameraman on his back like that. Funny you should say that. I once filmed a group of women on an aerial ropework course. They were swinging through trees, abseiling, god knows what. One of them was a TV presenter and she was mic'd up so I was basically filming her as she tried all this. One of the exercises was called the leap of faith. (With a safety line attached to the back of your full harness and a bloke on the ground to steady your rapid descent if you fell), they climbed 40 feet up a pole and negotiated a platform at the top, to stand and jump 6 feet to catch onto a trapeze, then being lowered to the ground. I filmed all this from the ground and a neighbouring pole, same 40 feet up. I had a safety harness as well, and filmed it all, great fun. Next was lunch, and a dozen chatty women saying that 'yeah go on you should have a go' etc. I couldn't let the side down so climbed the pole. Negotiating the platform at the top, a simple 2 foot ledge on one side of the pole was a nightmare. Leaping to the trapeze damned near killed me. I have never been so terrified in my life. Took me ages to realise why - no camera. Whenever I'm at height (up a tower, hot-air balloon, in a helicopter with no doors etc etc) I have the safety of a viewfinder to look down and everything is concentrated in getting the best angle for the shot. No camera = no life obviously for me! It was terror like I couldn't believe. Scariest height thing I've ever done was what is called the Triforium tour of Durham cathedral. Basically, swanning around in the roof spaces. At one point, you have to traverse around the bell tower at the crossover of the nave and apse. This is done on a ledge about 18 wide, with a similar or lower height parapet, about 150ft up. No harness or rope - not even a helmet. So I'm trying to move the 50yards or so whilst glued to the wall behind me when the thought strikes me that this is a manmade object about 900years old. And the guide has spent the last hour explaining how the building is almost alive, it moves so much. Knickerwetting. -- 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.
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On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Well seen captured knarF. Wouldn't change a thing. Frank, I'm beginning to have very conflicted emotions about you. You say all sorts of nice thing about my photos, which I like. Then you take something as cliche' as a sunset, and post a photo that makes me hate you. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: PESO - The Quiet City My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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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To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. Frank, I suggest you listen to Vangelis The City. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_%28album%29) Boris -- 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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Pretty, Frank. Love the colors! Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 8:01 AM Subject: PESO - The Quiet City My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- 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.
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On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:01 -0400, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. That's really nice - perfect composition. Definitely worth the early rise. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... -- 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.
PESO - The Quiet City
My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- 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.
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Excellent! It has color, beauty, serenity and a bit of mystery, Dab On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:01 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- 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.
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Great shot. Nice colours and feel to it. The survey company i worked for did all of the survey work for the CN tower, and i made it up as far as the roof of the restaurant level, all before glass etc. When i look back, i must have been nuts. Dave On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:01 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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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Frank, Lovely clouds over the city. Could you have the buildings turn on some lights? :-) Regrds, Bob S. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- 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.
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...must have been... ? On 9/26/2010 9:38 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Great shot. Nice colours and feel to it. The survey company i worked for did all of the survey work for the CN tower, and i made it up as far as the roof of the restaurant level, all before glass etc. When i look back, i must have been nuts. Dave On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:01 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- 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. -- His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen -- 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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That's damned nice. Who are you and really, what did you do with frank. (not that Frank's stuff wasn't nice, not nice really, but you know...) On 9/26/2010 9:01 AM, frank theriault wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen -- 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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On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 09:55:20AM -0500, Bob Sullivan scripsit: Frank, Lovely clouds over the city. Could you have the buildings turn on some lights? :-) There's been years of public campaigning to get them to turn the gods-be-feathered lights off; night-flying migrating birds hit the window glass, snap neck, etc. and die. Since Toronto is right smack on a migration route, this is even more actively bad than it might be in say, Banff. I was delighted to see that so many lights were _off_. -- Graydon -- 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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P. J. Alling wrote: ...must have been... ? Dave strikes me as remarkably sane these days, Certainly not nuts enough for this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhtgsAXmz7Ufeature=channel Anyone even remotely nervous about heights should not click this link. Yes, even though it is only a video. On 9/26/2010 9:38 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Great shot. Nice colours and feel to it. The survey company i worked for did all of the survey work for the CN tower, and i made it up as far as the roof of the restaurant level, all before glass etc. When i look back, i must have been nuts. Dave On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:01 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. -- 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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I had to stop watching it. I hate heights! I don't mind looking out of a plane window at 30,000 feet, but show me some air between me and a 100-foot drop, and my legs are gone. Jeffery On Sep 26, 2010, at 12:54 PM, mike wilson wrote: P. J. Alling wrote: ...must have been... ? Dave strikes me as remarkably sane these days, Certainly not nuts enough for this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhtgsAXmz7Ufeature=channel Anyone even remotely nervous about heights should not click this link. Yes, even though it is only a video. On 9/26/2010 9:38 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Great shot. Nice colours and feel to it. The survey company i worked for did all of the survey work for the CN tower, and i made it up as far as the roof of the restaurant level, all before glass etc. When i look back, i must have been nuts. Dave On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:01 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. -- 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.
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...must have been... ? Dave strikes me as remarkably sane these days, Certainly not nuts enough for this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhtgsAXmz7Ufeature=channel Anyone even remotely nervous about heights should not click this link. Yes, even though it is only a video. it must hard work with the cameraman on his back like that. B -- 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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Whoa, can't watch! On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: P. J. Alling wrote: ...must have been... ? Dave strikes me as remarkably sane these days, Certainly not nuts enough for this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhtgsAXmz7Ufeature=channel Anyone even remotely nervous about heights should not click this link. Yes, even though it is only a video. On 9/26/2010 9:38 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Great shot. Nice colours and feel to it. The survey company i worked for did all of the survey work for the CN tower, and i made it up as far as the roof of the restaurant level, all before glass etc. When i look back, i must have been nuts. Dave On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:01 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. -- 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.
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On 26/9/10, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: it must hard work with the cameraman on his back like that. Funny you should say that. I once filmed a group of women on an aerial ropework course. They were swinging through trees, abseiling, god knows what. One of them was a TV presenter and she was mic'd up so I was basically filming her as she tried all this. One of the exercises was called the leap of faith. (With a safety line attached to the back of your full harness and a bloke on the ground to steady your rapid descent if you fell), they climbed 40 feet up a pole and negotiated a platform at the top, to stand and jump 6 feet to catch onto a trapeze, then being lowered to the ground. I filmed all this from the ground and a neighbouring pole, same 40 feet up. I had a safety harness as well, and filmed it all, great fun. Next was lunch, and a dozen chatty women saying that 'yeah go on you should have a go' etc. I couldn't let the side down so climbed the pole. Negotiating the platform at the top, a simple 2 foot ledge on one side of the pole was a nightmare. Leaping to the trapeze damned near killed me. I have never been so terrified in my life. Took me ages to realise why - no camera. Whenever I'm at height (up a tower, hot-air balloon, in a helicopter with no doors etc etc) I have the safety of a viewfinder to look down and everything is concentrated in getting the best angle for the shot. No camera = no life obviously for me! It was terror like I couldn't believe. Curiously enough I've never skydived either -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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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Cotty wrote: On 26/9/10, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: it must hard work with the cameraman on his back like that. Funny you should say that. I once filmed a group of women on an aerial ropework course. They were swinging through trees, abseiling, god knows what. One of them was a TV presenter and she was mic'd up so I was basically filming her as she tried all this. One of the exercises was called the leap of faith. (With a safety line attached to the back of your full harness and a bloke on the ground to steady your rapid descent if you fell), they climbed 40 feet up a pole and negotiated a platform at the top, to stand and jump 6 feet to catch onto a trapeze, then being lowered to the ground. I filmed all this from the ground and a neighbouring pole, same 40 feet up. I had a safety harness as well, and filmed it all, great fun. Next was lunch, and a dozen chatty women saying that 'yeah go on you should have a go' etc. I couldn't let the side down so climbed the pole. Negotiating the platform at the top, a simple 2 foot ledge on one side of the pole was a nightmare. Leaping to the trapeze damned near killed me. I have never been so terrified in my life. Took me ages to realise why - no camera. Whenever I'm at height (up a tower, hot-air balloon, in a helicopter with no doors etc etc) I have the safety of a viewfinder to look down and everything is concentrated in getting the best angle for the shot. No camera = no life obviously for me! It was terror like I couldn't believe. Scariest height thing I've ever done was what is called the Triforium tour of Durham cathedral. Basically, swanning around in the roof spaces. At one point, you have to traverse around the bell tower at the crossover of the nave and apse. This is done on a ledge about 18 wide, with a similar or lower height parapet, about 150ft up. No harness or rope - not even a helmet. So I'm trying to move the 50yards or so whilst glued to the wall behind me when the thought strikes me that this is a manmade object about 900years old. And the guide has spent the last hour explaining how the building is almost alive, it moves so much. Knickerwetting. -- 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.
Re: PESO - The Quiet City
lovely photo, but what have you done with knarf? On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:01 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: My partner was out of the house last night/this morning, so I took advantage by getting up before the crack of dawn (now that dawn's cracking at a more reasonable time), feeding the cats, then schlepping (~before~ my first coffee, mind you!) the *istD, Tokina 80-200mm f2.8 and monopod down to the lake to try to get some photos of daybreak. It was a mixed success. Clouds on the horizon obscured the actual sunrise over the lake. Got lots of photos anyway, but none grabbed me. To the east of the actual sunrise was the skyline of Toronto, and again, took loads of photos. I think this is the best of them: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiet-city.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. BTW, the title was blatantly ripped off from one of my favourite Aaron Copland pieces which he wrote for an Irwin Shaw play (Quiet City) which ended up never being published. It's playing on the stereo now; if you listen real close you may be able to hear it. ;-) cheers, frank -- 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. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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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On 26/9/10, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: you have to traverse around the bell tower at the crossover of the nave and apse Some people pay good money for this ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/TJ9BvRZzZkI/HMY/ eWjKBCPSOCI/s1600/sunrise_skyline.jpg Sorry for hijacking the thread Frank - that's a superb landscape (seascape??). -- 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.
RE: PESO - The Quiet City
Scariest height thing I've ever done was what is called the Triforium tour of Durham cathedral. Basically, swanning around in the roof spaces. At one point, you have to traverse around the bell tower at the crossover of the nave and apse. This is done on a ledge about 18 wide, with a similar or lower height parapet, about 150ft up. No harness or rope - not even a helmet. So I'm trying to move the 50yards or so whilst glued to the wall behind me when the thought strikes me that this is a manmade object about 900years old. And the guide has spent the last hour explaining how the building is almost alive, it moves so much. Knickerwetting. I had a similarly moistening experience touring the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. -- 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.
