Re: [Paddlewise] White skies, a friendly sea, and me

Hi Tord,

On Wednesday, October 31, 2007, at 2:43:47 AM PST, you wrote:

> Just a tip: A tiny tripod does wonders to sceneries like that - and
> if your camera can take panoramas, so much the better! And if you
> can set the aperature to manual, choose a small one (most compacts
> has a minimum of f8, or thereabouts).

Thanks for the tips.  However...

I'm not much of a photographer, for several reasons:

1) I rarely remember to bring my camera (just an old 35mm Pentax
"point and shoot" with a little electric zoom thingy).  It's also not
waterproof.

2) When I do remember to bring it, I rarely remember to take it out of
my pocket just at the right moment.  I'm usually just mesmerized by
what I'm looking at, so a camera is the last thing on my mind.

3) Even if I do remember to bring it *and* take it out of my pocket, I
realize that I'd rather just be looking at something without the
camera in front of my face.

4) If I do remember to bring it, take it out of my pocket, and
actually shoot a picture, it may be years before I get around to
having the film developed (I still have a large bowl of undeveloped
film...somewhere around here).

5) There are more reasons, but at this point, why bother?

And then there's this:

This past Summer, I was paddling with the whales in a nearby bay, and
as I was just sitting in one spot on the water, a HUGE flock of
sandpipers *flew right through me!* Both the visual and audio was
absolutely beautiful and astounding. Ironically, I did have in my
pocket a little digital video camera that I'd borrowed from a friend
that day. Naturally, I didn't even think about it until this amazing
experience was over. :-)

If I were to properly capture video of that sublime event, the camera
would have had to be head mounted, idiotproof, fully
automatic-everything, and it would have to respond to brain waves to
know just when, what, and where to shoot; because I, at the time, was
in a state of involuntary motionless awe. :-)

-- 
Melissa
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