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Subject: [OM] Re: Free Pictures! Free Pictures!
From: David Carter <spotz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:25:15 +1200
Could the person in the red shirt be a "blokess"? IE the mother of ( hopefully 
) 
the children being photographed by their father?

I wouldn't blame him for being distracted by the interesting ( outstanding? ) 
background.

David

Wayne Harridge wrote:
> "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
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> the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
> Edward Weston
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