I Get No respect……No Respect!!!!
I get no respect, everyone thinks I don’t work hard, so here is the proof, I do. On assignment working on a holiday, St Patrick’s Day, on a Sunday even. I put in three hard hours with only a good breeze, a pink cooler full of ice (hey, I’m secure enough in my manhood to have a pink cooler!!), and a reasonably comfortable chair, but hey it’s the weekend, wonder what my workmates are doing, bet their taking the day off!!!! No respect, I tell you, no respect. So what did I get accomplished in my grueling 3 afternoon hours??? Here is some of the shooting I did from the gazebo with some of the other participants in the Topix 2013 Event.
I did get a chance to wring out the new 80-400 some today. In a word, drop dead spectacular, let me put it another way, I will buy one in a couple of months when I hang it up at Nikon!!!! For me, I don’t need the speed, or cost, of a 200-400, and I think this lens is at least as sharp!!! The VR is just beyond belief, I got some really sharp images at 600mm (on a DX camera it’s a 120 to 600 f 4.5-5.6!!!!) With the new VR I was able to get tack sharp images at 600mm at a 1/125th of a second!!!! Look at the example below, first shot is full frame, 600mm, hand held, 1/125th of a second, second shot is a 100% crop out of the first, just sick!!!!
If I wasn’t working so hard, I would be having a great time!!!!
Smiling through this whole thing…..
the pilgrim
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I feel for you brother! I just wish I could be there to lend a hand and lighten your load.
Happy shooting!
Sure would love you help, their killing me brother!!!!
Really Bill! Favorite person in the world, tropical beach, gazebo, pink cooler, comfy chair, airplanes, cute kids, AND you’re getting paid to do this! I am having a hard time feeling sorry for you on this assignment. Drink in the blessings of his love!
I am my friend, I am!
Shameful!!! I want you to tell whomever is responsible for treating you so shabbily that your brother will be paying them a visit when he gets out of prison!!! That should make them think twice before sending you to such an awful place again!
Luv ya man!
That sure will scare them good! Wish you and Terry were down here miserable with me and Sherelene!
I am a missionary in Guatemala. Mayans here often don’t want their pictures taken. Some children will play along but they look Victorian – NO SMILES when you try to frame a photo. I found working with short term teams that one would take a photo and then turn the camera so the children would see themselves, the laughter begins. SO I tell short term teams to buddy up and set this scenario up and alternate. I don’t think it has ever failed…. now adults – such hard cases.
In Christ, Dennis McCutcheon, Vine International