Hey, here's Dean Hansen. Now this man has a real niche. He uses his OM
macro gear to take exquisite macro photos of tiny underwater critters
which are so small you can hardly see them. This is Dean
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Archbold%20Biological%20Station%20w%20Dean%20Hansen/sam_1838ef.htm>
at the Archbold Biological Station just south of Lake Placid and Lake
Annie in Central Florida. Dean and I met up there this past February so
Dean could teach me some ultra macro tricks. But it wasn't in the cards
that day. But I did have a good time meeting up with Amadeus the Indigo
snake.
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Archbold%20Biological%20Station%20w%20Dean%20Hansen/p2200524e.htm>
I don't know if Dean makes any money selling his wonderful macro photos
but the point is that he has a niche that he loves, requires some
specialized equipment and considerable expertise and is not about to be
taken over by a high school kid with his Canon Digital Rebel.
On a related note, I've heard flash photography denigrated here but that
is also a little bit of a specialty which requires some specialized
equipment and skills. Taking flash photos like this at a night time
outdoor wedding reception will also not be done by the high school kid
with his Digital Rebel <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/party.php>
Photo restoration is another possible niche. They can also be combined.
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/restoration.php>
Dr. Flash
On 6/16/2012 3:21 PM, Dean Hansen wrote:
> Chuck recently posted:
> "If I'd have had a gun yesterday I'd have blasted the doe that was in
> our back yard."
> Chuck, now you have a better idea of why I bought 15 doe permits
> last fall for our local NW Wisconsin deer season.
> "Forest carp" is a pretty fitting appellation for those "lovely"
> white-tailed deer. Sorry they damaged your two maple seedlings. But
> try watching deer kill every white pine seedling, every oak seedling,
> every maple seedling that tries to grow on your 80 acres, and you'll see
> why the WI DNR was selling unlimited numbers of doe permits at $2 each
> for our area.
> Every vegan should spend a week hand-planting 1,000 pine seedlings
> in the woods in the spring and come back the next year to see every last
> one of them killed by deer browsing.
> Dean (an proud member of PETA, People Eating Tasty Animals)
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