"Photographer with background problem" is interesting, what is the bloke
in the red shirt looking at ?
...Wayne
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> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Wayman
> Sent: Friday, 17 September 2004 9:00 PM
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> Subject: [OM] Free Pictures! Free Pictures!
>
>
> Hurricane Ivan came ashore yesterday a little west of the
> Destin/Ft. Walton Beach, Florida area where we had been until
> we were told to evacuate this past Tuesday. The storm
> rearranged things rather haphazardly, including washing out
> sections of the coast highway and collapsing a bridge on
> Interstate 10. As promised (threatened), I'm posting a few
> shots I took while we were there. You will see no wall
> hangers here, just some quick and dirty scans.
>
> This was never intended to be a serious photographic outing,
> so I hauled along only two OM-4T's, with motor drives, and
> seven lenses. The lenses included my "serious" walk about
> kit of 19-35/3.5~4.5 Phoenix, 35-80/2.8 Zuiko, and 80-200/2.8
> Tamron. But because I didn't want the bother of a camera
> bag, or even a fanny pack, and because it was just too damn
> hot even for my lightweight and ventilated Cabela's safari
> vest of many pockets, the only lens that made it out of the
> condo was the 28-105/2.8 Tamron.
>
> I know some of you don't think much of this lens and have not
> been bashful about saying so, and I certainly won't argue
> that it's optically equal to the 35-80/2.8 Zuiko, or even the
> 35-105/2.8 Tamron. But its range make it my favorite
> one-lens outfit, which, to me, outweighs it's large size and
> possibly infinitesimally lesser optical performance. The
> only other lenses that even made it out of the bag on this
> trip were the 80-200/2.8 Tamron and 500/8 Zuiko, which I used
> for a couple of shots from the balcony. In fact, in four
> days, I took only 72 photographs. I guess I'm slowing down
> in my dotage.
>
> Here's the link:
>
http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photos.html-.html
Walt
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"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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