I love the fact that when I'm out taking night shots I generally don't have to be concerned about what others think, as there is no one with cooee to observe what I'm doing.
Remote outback ftw!! Nice shots Larry. You need a D700 :-) DS 2009/11/10 Derby Chang <[email protected]>: > Larry Colen wrote: >> >> 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/ >> >> > > > That is the best story I've read in a while. Many times, while adding > nitrates to the environment, I've had philosophical thoughts. Never been in > an opportunity when I could share my thoughts with law enforcement. -- 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.
