Welcome to the club, mister
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743
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Tim Randles wrote:
> Hi everyone...
>
> Name is Tim, I'm new to SLR photography, I work as an electrician, and have a
> long history of photography, but not 35 mm SLR, just thousands of point and
> click on an olympus my mom bought for me when she was in Egypt 15 years ago..
> I had a HP 318 digital I bought reconditioned from Tigerdirect.com a couple
> years ago, and took it to Afghanistan where it bit the dust, ( literally) It
> was my first digital and I fell in love with digital photography there. I
> took lots of pics..lots of pics...( I'm civilian, but still managed to tour
> the country while on contract to the Canadian Military. I'd go back in a
> heartbeat, I loved it there, it was tough and dangerous, but the people, the
> landscapes, the rocks and mountains...OMG!
>
> I bought an E-Volt 500 with 2 lens kit as a christmas gift to myself for
> working 12 hour days in an exploration camp in the arctic over christmas,
> missing my family and the fun...I wanted something significant for my
> personal pleasure
>
> While I was at that camp over christmas, the head geologist fell in love with
> my camera, ( he was using a Rebel XT), he borrowed my user manual, and then
> flew away without giving it back, so now I am really hooped..
>
> I took a lot of northern lights photos there, and still have to run them
> through the photoshop thing, some of them worked out pretty nice.. I took
> about 100 photos, ( if I only knew what I was doing)
>
> I subscribed to this list so I can get some idea of what I am supposed to do
> with this beautiful machine. I dont know how to use shutter speeds, f-stops
> or what all the numbers mean. I know I dont have the lenses I will need, so
> this is where I plan on learning about them.
>
> I emailed a local community college and asked about fall courses for the
> digital photography, they do them all the time, so I will have opportunity to
> get some nice photos after I learn more.
>
> In the mean time, it is a delightful summer time here north of 67, somewhere
> 300 km south of Bathurst Inlet in Northwest territories north of Lupin Mines,
> and I missed an opportunity for images of a heard of 19 Musk Ox that were at
> the airstrip this morning, I was there and didnt have the camera. When I
> returned with my machine, they were long gone.. :(
>
> I did manage to get a couple shots of a rainbow during the rain today, there
> was a huge double rainbow, 2 spectrums thick on the bottom one( if that is
> the right words, I dont know light terminolgy yet). I never saw one so close
> to the ground before. by the time I got the camera from my bunk, the double
> was gone, and the single was fading fast..
>
> I'm going on a 4 week trip, Egypt and Kenya in January with my wife, Giza,
> Mount Sinai, nile cruise, red sea to go diving, then flying to Nairobi, -
> masa mara game farms, balloon ride, ogorogoro crater,
>
> It's the trip of a lifetime for us, before I get my sausage plant into full
> production, because once I get it up and running, I wont get any time off for
> a couple years..
>
> Anyways, that is all from here, it is raining again tonight, and the
> mosquitoes are as big as Robins here. last week I saw 2 of them grab the camp
> attendant and drag him behind the trailer and start chewing on his thigh. I
> ran and got the bear spray and a bear banger and chased them away, he is ok,
> a flesh wound, but shook up pretty bad. We had a near miss - critical
> incedent report and are not allowed out of the camp without an armed partner
> anymore.
>
> Cheers.. Tim
>
>
> Cheers.. Tim Randles - Sausage King
>
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