I was having so much fun taking pictures on my drive home, that by 1:30 or so I was still fifty miles south of Los Bano and had to pull over for a nap. After my nap, while I was adding nitrates to the soil, I noticed how cool Orion looked juxtaposed with a telephone pole. After I got some frames of that, a couple other things caught my eye.
It was about quarter of three, I was 50-100m down the road, just finishing up, when I noticed a cop car parked next to my car. He had stopped to make sure that it hadn't been abandoned. The laptop on the seat assured him of that. He was, however, utterly perplexed at what someone was doing, at that time of night, in the suburbs of nowhere, taking pictures. The phrase "But what are you taking pictures *for*?" kept coming up. I asked him if he ever took pictures just because they were pretty? Nope. Do you paint? Nope. Make music? Nope. Would you like to see them? OK. We got to my camera just as the bracketed set was finishing up, and I put one of the shots on the display. "Cool!" I've narrowed the myriad of bracketed shots from that session down to 14, I still have some work to do: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622649186149/ Unfortunately, there seems to be a bit of dust on the sensor, which I've cropped out in a couple of them: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622649186149/ -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
