The short-short version: Jeepers, I've got a [EMAIL PROTECTED] of
editing to do in the next few weeks!
What I started out writing:
I'm home from Pennsic, partly unpacked, exhausted, still need to
return the truck to the merchant who paid me to drive it ...
... Seven sets of rechargeable batteries (the seventh is in the
camera now, showing 'empty' when I pop up the flash and 'half'
otherwise -- an eighth set self-discharged before I could use it),
a couple additional sets of disposable batteries for flash units,
7GB worth of CF cards (fifteen cards; I shot the small ones first
so that when I got to more frequent shooting later in the war I'd
have the 1G cards available then), three rolls of film (one roll
of 135 and two rolls of 120) ...
... and I got a bat -- sortakinda. It's blurry and a little
overexposed, but I verified that I can throw enough light in
the right direction and trip the shutter with the critter in
the frame at enough magnification to be useful, even if I still
need another fifty weeks of practice on chimney swifts to be
able to get the distance right. (The reason "enough light"
was a question is that I stopped down to increase the odds of
getting the distance right-enough. If I focus after the bat
is in the viewfinder, I'll lose it again before I have time
to shoot; I did best by shooting with the camera at arm length
instead of looking through the finder.)
As of Saturday night, I had 1990 digital photos to sift through
and edit (I'm not counting the ones I deleted before taking the
card out of the camera), a fair number of which I'll also need
to remember whom I need to send copies to -- I shot a lot of
candids of children and children-with-parents, which I promised
to the parents. I also sold a photo right after I shot it,
delivered a CD the following day, and was promised additional
money if the subject's husband likes it when she gets home (and
I'm quite certain he will). That was of a woman who first
complained that she "doesn't photograph well" -- I also got
two other photos of people who had the same complaint, both
of whom were also pleasantly surprised at what I was able to
do. (Yes, my dear subjects, feeeed my ego!)
And showing off for campmates, I got a macro image I rather
like, of a grain of salt and a grain of pepper, which I'll
share online once I figure out which card it was on.
I also managed to rub off a patch of skin carrying the double
bass on my head (I guess that trick is only good for shorter
distances); but I also had a guitar student and a mandolin
student, and may have lined up folks to teach next year, and
I got to play with Wolgemut in the marketplace (as well as for
dancers at the Grand Pennsic Ball and one other night). And
on the final evening I got to hear a new song by Andrew MacRobb
regarding the importance of sunscreen, involving "an itsy bitsy,
teeny weeny, stainless-steel chain-mail bikini" (set to the
obvious melody).
Between the comment-generating bass fiddle, and the equally
comment-generating telescope-as-camera-lens, I guess this was
my year to play "mine's bigger".
For the most part not a very good Pennsic for me, mostly due
to frustrations from not being physically able to do as much
as I would have liked, but it certainly had its highlights!
And even being a not-good Pennsic by Pennsic standards, it was
far better than any other fortnight I've had so far this year.
(Finally getting a bureaucratic mess straightened out and being
able to get my medications again just before I left, after a
few months without, no doubt contributed to my having a better
two weeks than I've had in a while. But so did the fact that
it was Pennsic.)
The past two years I've wanted to bring the double bass but
thought better of it at the last minute, then spent half of
War thinking, "I wish I had the bass here." This time I found
it to be every bit as much a PITA to lug up the hill as I'd
feared, but was really glad I'd brought it. The only instruments
I brought that I didn't wind up playing were the percussion.
In conclusion, a reiteration of the short version -- Jeepers,
I've got a [EMAIL PROTECTED] of editing to do in the next few weeks!
Er ... or months.
-- Glenn
Relevant URLs:
http://www.dglenn.org/events/pennsic.html
http://www.pennsicwar.org/penn37/
http://dglenn.livejournal.com/ (QotD entries are automatically
posted; recent cell-phone posts were from Pennsic, except the
"I'm home" one.)
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