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Re: [OM] Here's a niche: was, TWO FOR THE MONEY

Subject: Re: [OM] Here's a niche: was, TWO FOR THE MONEY
From: Robert Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:51:22 -0700
Check out Clark Little:
http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/


On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey, here's Dean Hansen.  Now this man has a real niche.  He uses his OM
> macro gear to take exquisite macro photos of tiny underwater critters
> which are so small you can hardly see them.  This is Dean
> <
> http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Archbold%20Biological%20Station%20w%20Dean%20Hansen/sam_1838ef.htm
> >
> at the Archbold Biological Station just south of Lake Placid and Lake
> Annie in Central Florida.  Dean and I met up there this past February so
> Dean could teach me some ultra macro tricks.  But it wasn't in the cards
> that day.  But I did have a good time meeting up with Amadeus the Indigo
> snake.
> <
> http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Archbold%20Biological%20Station%20w%20Dean%20Hansen/p2200524e.htm
> >
>
> I don't know if Dean makes any money selling his wonderful macro photos
> but the point is that he has a niche that he loves, requires some
> specialized equipment and considerable expertise and is not about to be
> taken over by a high school kid with his Canon Digital Rebel.
>
> On a related note, I've heard flash photography denigrated here but that
> is also a little bit of a specialty which requires some specialized
> equipment and skills.  Taking flash photos like this at a night time
> outdoor wedding reception will also not be done by the high school kid
> with his Digital Rebel <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/party.php>
>
> Photo restoration is another possible niche.  They can also be combined.
> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/restoration.php>
>
> Dr. Flash
>
>
>
> On 6/16/2012 3:21 PM, Dean Hansen wrote:
> > Chuck recently posted:
> > "If I'd have had a gun yesterday I'd have blasted the doe that was in
> > our back yard."
> >      Chuck, now you have a better idea of why I bought 15 doe permits
> > last fall for our local NW Wisconsin deer season.
> >      "Forest carp" is a pretty fitting appellation for those "lovely"
> > white-tailed deer.  Sorry they damaged your two maple seedlings.  But
> > try watching deer kill every white pine seedling, every oak seedling,
> > every maple seedling that tries to grow on your 80 acres, and you'll see
> > why the WI DNR was selling unlimited numbers of doe permits at $2 each
> > for our area.
> >      Every vegan should spend a week hand-planting 1,000 pine seedlings
> > in the woods in the spring and come back the next year to see every last
> > one of them killed by deer browsing.
> > Dean (an proud member of PETA, People Eating Tasty Animals)
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