Doris;
What a great story. When does the movie come out? Why do we NEVER have our
cameras at times like these?
george
PS- If you're serious about the dead OM-1, e-mail me.
*- DORIS FANG -* wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Giles wrote:
>
> > Last night I missed a wonderful photo opportunity.
> <snipped wonderful account of bat behavior>
>
> Giles, it would have been good to have had your wife "model" with the
> bat zipping around the room, in a shrieking pose (probably not too hard to
> elicit).
>
> I missed the opportunity of a lifetime a decade ago. In the Ocala
> National Forest, in pre-dawn darkness, I was with a friend in a pick up
> truck on the way to buy baitfish (shiners) before going fishing. It was a
> Park road, two-lanes and absolutely dark, when we spotted what seemed to
> be a deer's eye in the headlights and slowed down. Incredible as this
> will seem, it was much further down the road, and it was a large,
> (25 feet long, 14 high) egg-shaped glowing orange/red object hovering
> above the road: A UFO. The whole thing glowed intensely, it looked solid
> (I thought at first it might be a giant plasma blob) but had no seams,
> rivets or any discernible surface structure. Frankly, the whole thing
> looked "alive", and I do know how crazy that sounds.
> It hung there for over two minutes (I timed it), glowing wildly. It
> could have been easily shot with ISO 400 with no flash. It was casting
> light onto the trees on either side of the road. I HAD NO CAMERAS, they
> were back at the house, with the rest of the fishing party...suddenly
> it began to pulsate and it shot upwards at a slight angle and so rapidly
> that it blended into the star field in less than 4 seconds. Yes, I blew
> it...
> *= Doris Fang =*
>
> OM Content ?
>
> Oh, I've been looking for an OM-1 with a dead meter that I can buy cheap
> and not be afraid to trash...take a 50/1.8 with it...fuji 800...
>
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