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Subject: Re: [OM] OT--A few New Ones
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:14:01 -0500
Glad to hear your battery apparently survived the abuse even if you had 
trouble getting your own neurons underway.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt

Bob Whitmire wrote:
>  From the "Be Careful Out There" Department. The home page picture on  
> my site was taken into a 30 knot wind. Temp was 20 degrees F., give  
> or take (most likely take). I had been standing on an exposed rock  
> for more than an hour, shooting in the other direction. I thought I  
> was properly dressed. As the sun set, some really spectacular skies  
> began to take shape. I knew the 70-200 was not the lens I needed.
> 
> But as I started to switch to the 24-70, I realized I couldn't. My  
> body was too locked up from standing for more than an hour in a wind  
> chill of about 1 degree F. My extremities would not obey the commands  
> necessary to kneel, shelter camera from the wind, and effect a lens  
> change. I found myself uncharacteristically confused, even for me.  
> After all, changing lenses is not exactly rocket science. My muscles  
> know how to do that, even in utter darkness. But not this day. So I  
> abandoned any opportunity to get the other sky pictures, and began  
> picking my way back to the car over bounders of assorted sizes. The  
> tide also had been coming in, and in a few places that had been dry  
> coming out, I found water blocking my path. There were plenty of  
> alternate routes, but it took my fuzzy brain a few moments to  
> actually track them and get my body headed in the right direction.
> 
> Never been so happy to see my car. Or to get in and turn it on and  
> blast the heater on high all the way home, a 20-minutes drive. Even  
> after a hot shower I was cold. Even after a cup of coffee, I was cold.
> 
> In hindsight, I suppose I thought I was adequately dressed, but  
> wasn't. I also made the mistake of standing still for long minutes at  
> a time, moving nothing more than my trigger finger, with an  
> occasional reframing of the shot. Sadly, none of those pictures save  
> the home-page shot have made the cut.
> 
> So for those of you in extreme climes. Be Careful Out There!
> 
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bwp33.com
> 
> On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 
>> The new Home Page picture is great, Bob, <snip>
-- 
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