On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Bill Owens wrote: > If I can get my carcass out of bed early enough, I plan on shooting them > with the P30t/Zenitar 16mm fisheye and the Kiev 60/Arsat 35mm fisheye, both > on Ilford 400 B&W film.
For a fleeting moment I thought about it, then I remembered my last year attempt.. Spending all evening ill-prepared in a frigid field somewhere in the Poconos sobering up from the party earlier that evening.. With a ZX-5n I didn't know how to correctly use, yet (I had no idea how toet shutter times of 30s, and I had no cable release, it hadn't arrived!), and my ZX-50, which I could at least set to 30s sets.. Also used the Zenitar 16mm, only to find as I was getting into the car later that morning that the lens had developed a fine layer of frost at some point in the evening. Finally, going to WORK after spending the evening out there to pull an eight hour shift. Sleeping on teh couch in front. Trying to not sleep at my desk. So, I thought about all this in the space of a few seconds, and decided I didn't need to try and photograph leonids this year, especially since not a single frame turned out from the last year. Instead, I slept. That's OK, it looked cloudy out at like 2am, anyway. -- http://www.infotainment.org <-> more fun than a poke in your eye. http://www.eighteenpercent.com <-> photography and portfolio.
