Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's one thing worse than someone tying to photograph the Tsunami. At Mavericks, near 1/2 Moon Bay, CA, we had a surfer who flew in from Hawaii to try to break his own world record for biggest wave surfed. Note my use of the past tense. The news last night showed his wife and daughters' messages to him, written in the sand. Tom -----Original Message----- From: tedgrant at shaw.ca Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:25 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] keep those leicas dry... CAPA SAID! Steve Barbour offered: Subject: [Leica] keep those leicas dry... > re the tsunami that will hit the US west coast very shortly, > > don't go to the beach with your camera. > > If you can shoot a tsunami you are way too close...<<<<< Hi Steve, Capa offered if "your pictures aren't good enough! You're not close enough!" Well this is one case where "HE IS WRONG!!!!" BIG-TIME! If I were going to be stupid enough to go to "photograph a Tsunami!" I'd want the highest ground away from the ocean and the longest lens... maybe a Canon 1250mm WITH A 2X EXTENDER to take the pictures! Last year after one of the quakes in the Pacific we had Tsunami warnings all up the Vancouver Island coast. And what happened? The morons who walk amongst us went to the beach to see what it would look like! :-( Of course then the coast guard folks and police officers have to put their lives in danger to make them go away! We even had one guy who argued he had all the right in the world to stay and watch because it's a "FREE COUNTRY!" "Brains?" He thought they said "Trains! and missed his!" Where are the guys in the white coat's when you need them to take away a lunatic like that? The police just left him there! Unfortunately nothing happened of course! Trust me .... "He would not have been missed if he were swept away!" Living on coastal water one learns about Tsunami waves, Rogue waves and probably others that inlanders never hear about... Other than they read about a tsunami because they can kill a quarter million people before you can spit! The Rogue wave can sneak-up on you, sweep you off the shore into the water silently before you ever have any idea what happened.... other than you are now in the ocean fighting for your life.... which you usually lose! It's a big ocean! :-( And yes we need a word from any members in Japan what their status is, meanwhile say a prayer to the Great Spirit for everyone there! Dr. ted _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information