John Hudson wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry B. Bean <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Zuiko-holics Anonymous <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 3:07 PM
> Subject: [OM] Olympian Fame
>
> >I've spent a good part of the spring & summer honing my monopod
> >technique by shooting my son's ball games, and put together an album
> >for parents and players to browse through and pick out prints they
> >wanted (hopefully recouping some of my expense and building a
> >portfolio in the process). I took the album to the park last night
> >for our last tournament game, and the pictures got rave reviews all
> >around.
> >
> >But the strangest comment I heard was:
> >
> >"Wow, that Olympus sure does take some nice pictures!"
> >
> >Now while I agree that my Olympuses (Olympi? Olympodes?) take great
> >pictures, I was under the impression that I still had something to do
> >with the end result.
>
> Barry: Have heart! Remember that Olympian refers to being grand,
> magnificant, celestial, superior..... and that Olympus was the Thessalian
> mountain on which the classical Greek gods dwelt. You were the god who came
> down the mountain at just the right moments and captured all those rave
> review images ...!
>
> jh
>
> >
> >Ah well...
> >
> >BBB
> >-
> >B.B. Bean - Have horn, will travel bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Peach Orchard, MO http://www.beancotton.com/bbbean.shtml
> >
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Lord it's getting deep in here!
yours gone looking for my boots :-):-):-),
Garry
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