According to a documentary by Tex Avery, the fox say “Cheerio” and “Pip-pip” and other phrases common to British middle aristocracy.
I wish people would do just a little research before causing a panic.
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Category: RamblingsI have invented the perfume tattoo.
Now at last I can beat some scents into people.
I would like to help the needy, to feed the hungry, to teach the world to sing.
But robbing someone to accomplish this is still a sin and a crime– if I can’t persuade them to help, I will do only what I can.
The one phrase you never want to hear in a restaurant is, “Do you need a few minutes to look over the menu?”
If you say yes, your waiter will be disappear, to be recalled to the Waiter Planet to patiently await his next reincarnation.
Your only comfort is to remember the good times when you still had hope of eating.
Shots from the 2013 Gainesville Classic are up on the site.
I really love the lighting in this auditorium, despite it being a bit cramped. The secret of course is that the backdrop is not stark ebony, giving me a little room to work with.
The fluorescent colors in the physique guys’ shorts are still causing me grief, as they as reflecting a bunch of light that the camera can see but I can’t, causing massive underexposure; I may have found a workaround for that, in the meantime I converted the “problem children” to black-and-white so there would at least be something to show.
The show was another well-run Tony Curtis production, and as always it was a delight to not have to drive much to get to the show. :)
Enjoy.
Shots from the 2013 Lakeland show are up on the site.
“Wait,” you cry, “what about the Floridas? And the Ancient City Classic?”
I’ve always heard “it’s a poor workman who blames his tools”, so this is on me, but since having such nice success with the well-lit shots at the Galaxy, I’ve had hard luck trying to get the new camera to behave in the trickier lights. I went back to full manual for the Lakeland, and though the consistency looks bad, it’s actually a pretty good representation– I love that little theater, but the lights were really uneven. I think some of the automatic settings on the old EOS would have compensated for that a bit… Anyway.
The Floridas I pretty much wrote off as an experimentation exercise– it was going by SO flamin’ fast I couldn’t keep up anyway. If I’d have known, I would have just done full-class shots and been quite happy. But I didn’t, and there were at least a couple of other photographers there in any case, so I’m not going to worry about it. If I promised you photos from that show, drop me a note; I’m pretty sure I can post-process some decent shots out of what I did get.
The Ancient City shots just came out a bit over-exposed; I’ll need to set aside some time for post-processing that out and I just don’t have it right now because…
I’ve also had an external drive, less than four months old, crap out on me; and while I have all the originals, it’s going to take considerable time to re-aggregate them (unless against all hope I can repair the drive and pull the data back off). I’ve been trying to avoid investing in a RAID enclosure but the prices keep dropping and it certainly would have avoided this debacle.
So that’s where I’m at right now– still paddling upstream and wishing I’d checked the paddle for termites. Enjoy the shots and stand by for updates.
To-day is Erwin Schrödinger’s birthday.
Or maybe it isn’t.