On 17 Mar 2009, at 16:59, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Tom Fenwick wrote:
>
>> I was still thinking about it three hours later when I drove back
>> and looked wistfully at the empty bus stop.
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>
> I don't mean to sound like a smart-ass here, but you saw it. The fact
> you didn't photograph it is not so important. True, we should always
> be ready to deploy gear and get the shot, but that's not always
> possible. (Unless your name is Nathan. <VBG> The most important thing,
> IMO, is that you _saw_ the shot, and everything around it. You were
> paying attention. Paying attention is a good thing. Good pictures are
> secondary.
I've thought about this for a day now, and I think you're right. Given
a choice between photographing without seeing and seeing without
photographing I know which way I'd go. But I'm still determined to see
something that good AND photograph it before the end of the weekend. :-)
Thanks Bob. And others - I've enjoyed this thread.
Tom
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>
> The "shot" that caused me to finally pick up a camera again after a
> 20-
> some-odd year hiatus was a shot I saw but didn't get, mostly because I
> didn't have a camera at the time. Cemetery on a knoll at the edge of a
> wood. Big-ass oak tree right smack atop the knoll. Yellow light,
> early-
> middle morning, bodacious god-rays spreading from the canopy of the
> old and gnarly oak. Took my breath away. At that moment I started
> thinking about maybe picking up a used camera of some kind, 'cause
> Maine was kinda pretty and it seemed a waste not to at least attempt
> to get a few good snaps.
>
> Three--possibly four--years went by before I finally couldn't stand it
> anymore and commandeered my son's OM-2n, which a relative had given
> him. He didn't like it because it had knobs you had to turn and stuff.
> Sigh.
>
> The rest, alas, is history.
>
>
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bwp33.com
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