Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted - I enjoyed your story of the photo editors rant. Your last word starting with "a" - you have one too many periods. Just my early morning alertness. Please don't get excited for my chickenshit criticism- it's just in fun. Best from the other Calif desert- Borrego Springs. where it will be a sunny, windy, 75 degrees F. Stasys ---- tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote: > Aram showed: > Subject: [LRflex] Niagara Falls Pano<<<<< > > >>>For the first shot from my 8 week trip I thought I'd post a 3 shot > >>>panorama of Niagara Falls taken from the Canadian side. Made three > >>>trips > >>>to the falls and saw day and night from each side. Impressive > >>>waterfall. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/191327-1/Niagara_Falls-4381-Edit-Edit.jpg<<< > > Hi Aram, > Very nice, not too often one sees the Falls in Pano format in the evening. > > But you haven't lived until you've photographed Niagara Falls from a > helicopter with the door off and you are right over the top and can feel > the > spray in your face. :-) Awesome angle!! :-) A touch scary though because > if > the machine crapped out we were history at the bottom of the gorge! :-( Oh > yes I had to keep wiping spray off the lens. :-( > > However the best part of that ride was the telephone message I left with > the > photo editor's secretary. > > "Tell Bill the shoot went very well, but we had a little incident when we > flew too close to the Niagara Tower and broke some windows with the rotor > blades hitting the tower! They're pissed off and want to know who is going > to pay for it?" :-) "Tell him to call me when he's back from lunch." Me? > I > continue shooting at ground level for the rest of the afternoon. > > Now anyone with an ounce of common sense intelligence... photo editors are > a > rare breed when it comes to things like that! He would've known the pilot > and myself would've been dead if that incident occurred in real life. > > About 4.30 I arrive back at the hotel and the desk people tell me there > have > been frantic phone calls from Ottawa and it is imperative I phone > immediately! > > I do and the photo editor goes into a kind of maniac screaming rage words > not fit to repeat. I stood there listening and letting him go on, finally > he > quits. Now appreciate that this SOB has been a master at sucking > photographers in with all kinds of fictitious tales of disaster for years. > So my response was: > > "GOTCHA!!" And hung-up! :-) > > He never brought the subject up again! However it evokes such a wonderful > feeling of "GOTCHA" I always have a nice smile of satisfaction each time I > relate the incident. :-) > > The other photographers of course heard about it and were in great fits of > laughing and shaking my hand for getting him so beautifully! But it was a > cool moment in time. Pure unadulterated satisfaction at burning his a... ! > ;-) > > Dr. ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information