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Subject: [OM] Re: Free Pictures! Free Pictures!
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:13:35 +1000
"Photographer with background problem" is interesting, what is the bloke
in the red shirt looking at ?

...Wayne


> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Wayman
> Sent: Friday, 17 September 2004 9:00 PM
> To: Oly List
> Subject: [OM] Free Pictures! Free Pictures!
> 
> 
> Hurricane Ivan came ashore yesterday a little west of the 
> Destin/Ft. Walton Beach, Florida area where we had been until 
> we were told to evacuate this past Tuesday.  The storm 
> rearranged things rather haphazardly, including washing out 
> sections of the coast highway and collapsing a bridge on 
> Interstate 10.  As promised (threatened), I'm posting a few 
> shots I took while we were there.  You will see no wall 
> hangers here, just some quick and dirty scans.
> 
> This was never intended to be a serious photographic outing, 
> so I hauled along only two OM-4T's, with motor drives, and 
> seven lenses.  The lenses included my "serious" walk about 
> kit of 19-35/3.5~4.5 Phoenix, 35-80/2.8 Zuiko, and 80-200/2.8 
> Tamron.  But because I didn't want the bother of a camera 
> bag, or even a fanny pack, and because it was just too damn 
> hot even for my lightweight and ventilated Cabela's safari 
> vest of many pockets, the only lens that made it out of the 
> condo was the 28-105/2.8 Tamron.
> 
> I know some of you don't think much of this lens and have not 
> been bashful about saying so, and I certainly won't argue 
> that it's optically equal to the 35-80/2.8 Zuiko, or even the 
> 35-105/2.8 Tamron.  But its range make it my favorite 
> one-lens outfit, which, to me, outweighs it's large size and 
> possibly infinitesimally lesser optical performance.  The 
> only other lenses that even made it out of the bag on this 
> trip were the 80-200/2.8 Tamron and 500/8 Zuiko, which I used 
> for a couple of shots from the balcony.  In fact, in four 
> days, I took only 72 photographs.  I guess I'm slowing down 
> in my dotage.
> 
> Here's the link:
> 
http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photos.html-.html

Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston
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