On 1/10/08, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: >Thanks Paul, Frank, Joe, and Cotty for the kind comments. >Joe, it really does involve getting on your belly. >Ann, thanks for looking, and have a look here: >http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/newer/shrooms1.html > >Mike, those mushrooms were no more than two inches tall, so I was pretty >close with a long lens. That scene is a few feet deep, and I wanted it all >in focus, even if it meant giving up absolute sharpness. >This is an uncropped photo, BTW.
As an aside, I recently spent an hour in the woods in Hampshire with a TV - chef, filming him and the reporter finding and collecting wild mushrooms for one of his restaurants. I never knew the stunning variety that one could come across in such a short walk. The forest was thick, the light dim, with periodic and wonderful oases of brightness from the overcast sky forming literally pools of calm light through which I could filmed the subjects walking and talking. Learned about nightcaps (!) and sebs - he went mental when finding two of the most highly prized delicacies growing within inches of each other (not the nightcap ;) and filming it all was a pleasure. Later, after I had filmed him cooking them - we tried the simple dish and it was impressive, as was the lunch he gave us in the restaurant. But no such thing as a free lunch - the news service I work for has just confirmed well over 400 redundancies. I need to go back and collect some of those magic shrooms now :-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.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.
