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Subject: [Leica] I hope you people don't mind! :-( :-(
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:45:49 +0100
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Rant away, Ted. What else are friends for? I too can remember when we agreed 
a
ban on tech talk at your suggestion and it was all images and C&C.

Peter

On 14/06/2012 17:16, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
> Man I don't know if I got up off the wrong side of the bed this morning? 
> Had
> horrible nightmares? Sure didn't have anything to drink other than water 
> and a
> cup of coffee I'm drinking at the moment.
> 
> Which since awakening another morning to all the wasted picture taking 
> time....
> "YOURS & MINE!" Because as I always do, click on what the weather for the 
> day
> should be....... "another wasted bit of time." I should just look out the
> window! If the sun is shining leave the blind-up and know it's worth 
> "GOING OUT
> FOR A WALK ABOUT HAPPY SNAPPING SOMETHING!" Or it's crappy weather and go 
> waste
> the day looking at the screen again!
> 
> But really sometimes all you folks get off on the equipment crap that 
> becomes
> nothing but a bucket of puke given you chase lenses, this that and every 
> kind of
> camera types you've owned or wouldn't own, used, or a tripod, the colour 
> in a
> slide is right, wrong, good, bad or ugly!!!
> 
> But the techie babblefest is becoming  an extremely tiring drone that's 
> both
> blinding and deafening. For a few short days there was a wonderful flood of
> cruise ship photos really interesting and worth following, comparing and
> enjoying the viewing time.
> 
> So OK I haven't posted anything either! WHY? Well my pea sized brain is
> overwhelmed with the canon vs. the S2, the Nikon with or without a lens of 
> 50mm
> some say they wouldn't use for the bottom of a coke bottle and it goes on.
> Grain, no grain, etc etc.
> 
> And when you get off on all this kind of crap you all seem to forget the 
> most
> important part of the picture taking process....... "THE CONTENT OF THE
> PHOTOGRAPH AND HOW YOU ARE MOVED BY IT!" Never mind what the hell 
> lens/camera
> you used!
> 
> Now there you go! Maybe it's just me and how somedays around here are 
> horrible
> bouts of god damn memories instead of my beautiful wife being here! :-( 
> And I
> can't see the keys for crying and I'm just pissed off with the world and
> everything in it! Sorry about the rant.But thanks for the shoulders to cry 
> on!.
> 
> :-(
> 
> ted
> 
> 
> 
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Dr Peter Dzwig                          




In reply to: Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] I hope you people don't mind)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] I hope you people don't mind)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca) ([Leica] I hope you people don't mind! :-( :-()