Hi, Tuesday, October 14, 2003, 10:25:28 AM, you wrote:
> On 13/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >>[Have you heard the term for that activity? It's known as 'chimping'; >>folks staring at their camera dispay anf going "Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!"] > ROTFLMAO! > That is hilarious! I see it all the time. Is it anything to do with the > Fleet Street (UK newspaper traditional base of activities) moniker for a > stills photographer: a 'monkey' ? There was a photo in the Independent of this last week. As far as I remember it showed either Sven Goran Ericssen or Rupert the ... I mean Ian Duncan Smith surrounded by a troupe of photographers, all staring at their display screens. Phillip Jones Griffiths (how come everybody in this email has 3 names?) commented scathingly on this once at a talk I went to. Said photographers were missing a lot of shots doing this. -- Cheers, Bob Binominal Walkden p.s. chimps, like us, are apes, not monkeys.
