Distaff list members might have preferred shot of sculpted forearms.
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From: Gary Edwards <garyetx@xxxxxxxx>
To: 'OM List' <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:23 PM
Subject: [OM] The cunning predator eyed me coldly.
> The cunning predator eyed me coldly. This was her territory and she knew
> it. Scant yards away, I returned the steely gaze in kind as I raised a
full
> five-hundred and sixty millimeters of superb Japanese glass. One hand
> gripped the cool metal, Maitani's finest titanium, and the other calmly
spun
> the focusing ring until I could discern each individual feline whisker in
> the brilliance of the two-series viewfinder. My well-muscled arms tensed
> like a Greek statue as I became a human tripod holding the long lens
> breathlessly steady. Sweat, drawn by the blazing Rio Grande sun,
glistened
> on my sculpted forearms. The great cat was frozen in anticipation of the
> climax to come. With the unforgettable image framed and focussed, I
> squeezed the release.
>
> Then I heard it - a sound that few have heard and returned to tell of, a
> sound that made my blood run cold. I began to shake as, in that horrible
> instant, I tried to comprehend how my good fortune could evaporate so
> quickly; how it could all end this way . . .
>
> "Click. . . Pause. . .Whir. . . Clunk."
>
> ARRRGGGHHH!
>
> The mighty cat heard it, too, and in less than a heartbeat turned in its
own
> length and vanished into the riparian bush.
>
> Stunned, I looked down at the camera's top deck: MANUAL, one-fifteenth of
a
> second!? How could it be? The shot of a lifetime and I just made it
> hand-holding 560 mm at one-fifteenth of a second? It was supposed to be
on
> AUTO! An adult bobcat (Lynx rufus), in its springtime prime, in good
light,
> looking straight at me, at 20 paces and I blew it? Please, put me out of
my
> misery - who-knows-how-many stops over-exposed, five stops too slow to
hand
> hold!
>
> For the sad result, see:
>
> http://members.home.com/garyetx/bobcat.htm
>
> Gary Edwards
> (who is at least as boneheaded with an OM-4T as Ken Norton is with his
> OM-2S)
>
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