Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Geoff, I love your clouds. I also enjoyed the narrative, and hope that as soon as the C... photographer has finished with Doug on board the canoe he'll be rushing to your place and document the daily ordeal as described. Hold on fast my friend, kids grow up quickly, which spoils the strain ;-) Amiti?s Philippe Keep posting ! . Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >Folks today I have coined a new genre, the casual cloudscape. >Some may find entertainment in the story of the photo. >OK, currently I am running our household solo, an occupation for which I am >eminently unsuited. My wife is somewhere in the wilds of Colorado or at >least a bar in Denver. >I picture her sipping a good Sauvignon Blanc while admiring the Rockies. >Meanwhile I am juggling and crisis managing two children and two Border >Terriers (aka velociraptors). >Having managed to facilitate cleaning up velociraptor poop and the bones of >their last meal (aka the TV remote control foolishly left only 2 metres >above the floor), then homework, dinner and school lunch preparation, I >dashed out to the garage to ferry number one child to her Karate class while >preparing to collect number two from his own class. We've had a storm and it >is late sunset. I exit the garage and am gob-smacked by the light. >RATS! I should have my camera with me! >I have to post pictures! someone will eventually comment, my last two >picture posts were apparently invisible! >Wait a minute! It's right there in the car, I DO have it with me! >No time, no time, hang on, are you kidding me, look at the light! >Out with the M8. Try not to slip down the wet, steep driveway. >What lens have I got on? I was shooting with the 75 before? I can make that >work. >ISO, OK 320 will work, focus to infinity, aperture F11, let's rock, >Look at that, a V of ibis are flying into frame, Woohoo! > why won't the button push! >What does flashing frame counter mean, the battery had at least half charge >this morning! >Look at LCD - Bottom cover missing AAAAGH! >guess I missed engaging that properly when I took it off before to copy new >portrait stuff! >Ibis fly gracefully into the distance while I remove the half case and refit >the bottom cover properly. >The last ibis is laughing! >Cover on, compose carefully, dang that frame for the 75 is hard to identify, >come BACK you miserable ibis, I can channel Doug Herr and pretend to be a >competent wildlife photographer! >hmm, shoot four frames, let's try a little wider lens, my 28 is in Solms, >put on the 35. >Hang on! that was my 50! Hmm well those were carefully composed-not! >All right, light is fading, put on the 35, no time to reset lens detection >(this one aint 6 bit!), I'll fix it in Photoshop if it is a problem! >OK clock is ticking, light is fading, time for a couple more frames. >Aah, continue panic mode and get home for good Belgian beer and import new >photos in brand new PS CS4. This software is way cool! >Oh wait I have lost all of the careful configuration and plug-ins in >previous version! >Never mind, drink beer and post image for LUG friends. >Here it is > > <http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/104850521> ><http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/104850521> >http://tinyurl.com/5glx65 >Comments, critiques and scriptwriters welcome! > >Cheers >Geoff >http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >