Jostein: I hope to have a "Cassino Moment" as well. I aim to get the kit together & try snowflakes. I've got his site bookmarked for my attempt at snowflakes. I'll look for photos at the Pentax gallery. I had a dry spell yesterday--couldn't get in the groove--came home down in the dumps about too. But these stories have cheered me up. Thanks!!! Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "AlunFoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 8:02 AM Subject: Re: Your Great Photographic Moments? >I think such moments come in at least two distinct flavours. > > One is where I've put down loads of effort in preparing to photograph > a particular subject, and the effort is crowned by photographic > success. The other is where an opportunity finds me out of the blue > and I come away surprised and lucky. > > There are many moments to look back at, of both flavours. The memory > of "kick" induced by those moments is one of the main drives to keep > on photographing, especially through the inevitable dry spells. > > Two particular memories of return-for-preparations: > My first successful photo of a snow crystal came after first envying > Mark Cassino's shots for several years, then looking into what kind of > gear I needed, figuring out how to handle those brittle little things, > and finally seize the opportunities when they arose. It took many > opportunities to get the first one good enough to be proud of. > In 2004, Adelheid von Kirschten and I toured the East Coast of USA. We > had been to GFM, and meandered out to the Outer Banks. It was on our > first morning out there the Venus Passage took place, and I rose early > to get a glimpse. Rising early is a particular personal challenge for > me... :-) As the morning fog rolled in from the Atlantic, I realised > that I would either miss it or get a wonderful opportunity to > photograph it without the need for any special filters. So I prepared > by finding a sand dune with some nice straws on it and waited for the > sun to shine through the fog some time before the passage was over. It > got exactly _one_ shot. And it worked out. > > One example of the other flavour is from when we (the whole family) > visited Boris Liberman and family in Israel in 2005. They took us to > Jerusalem one day, and wandering around I observed a couple of > schoolkids playing and stopped to take a pic. They noticed me, thought > I was funny or something and shot back. Not with a camera, but with a > toy gun. > > I think I've shown all the mentioned pics here... The latter two have > been accepted into the Pentax gallery too. > > Jostein > > > 2008/2/9, Christine Aguila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi Everyone: >> >> I hope you don't find this request tiresome, but given the great >> international reach, the delightfully varied life experiences and >> photographic interests, and the endless talent of the list, I'd love to >> hear >> stories about your greatest photographic moments. Anyone willing to >> share a >> story or 2? >> >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
