thambar
Shouldn't it be sharper?
I really want to attend! However, my mother is currently in the hospital, but if her condition improves I'll be there, even if it rains. With snow, I'm staying in Philly.
Range-rover
Veteran
I hope your Mom will feel better!
Bob
Bob
Crazy Fedya
Well-known
James,
I hope your Mom feels better, and you can make the meet.
I hope your Mom feels better, and you can make the meet.
Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
benmacphoto
Well-known
Wish I could make it, last year was a lot of fun.
Standard stuff like Goose Island, Founders, etc.
So, is the snow going to scare most off?
Crazy Fedya
Well-known
I still plan to come.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
James,
My best wishes for your mom's recovery. If you can't make this year's convention know that you will be missed. Hope all works out so you can attend.
I'll be there at 12 to reserve the balcony. I still remember when the NYFD took our table in the back at one Meet-Up. If anyone would like to come early I'll be there. Things tend to get rather crowded and chaotic fast.
As far as the swatches of Italian goat leather, I did not have the opportinity to visit my "Camera Barn" (public storage) to retrive the goods. I'll mail or deliver the prize at a later date.
Yesterday, I went to see my new hematologist. It seems this year I am registering good numbers (low levels of antibodies) and not having evil "blue attacks" due to exposure to the cold, and none of the usual fatigue that generally comes with the cold weather. I kinda discovered that my character of being a total slacker is very good for my health since my rare disease is auto immune related. My eating, exercising, and cutting all the stressful bullcrap out of my life somehow my doctor and me agree has somehow boosted my immune system this winter.
Cal
Range-rover
Veteran
Good Cal I'm glad your feeling better and your visit was good. See you guy's Sunday
the only way I could miss it if the trains get delay (a lot).
Bob
the only way I could miss it if the trains get delay (a lot).
Bob
That's great news Cal.
Crazy Fedya
Well-known
Cal,
I am very glad to hear you are feeling better this winter.
I am very glad to hear you are feeling better this winter.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
John,
It pays to be a lazy slacker like me.
Never knew anyone with a complicated stressful life that was really happy.
My life is basically simple: have fun and be productive with photograpghy, and ignore all the rest.
BTW printing is mighty costly. Already I'm thinking I need to stockpile more paper and that means a couple of hundred dollars. Already half through my 150 sheets of 8 1/2x11's, and I still haven't printed larger yet, even though I have stockpiles of 13x19 and 17x22.
Yesterday went to AI Friedman to look at book/portfolios and museum boxes. What a rip. Been spending a lot of time talking with the framing pro's also gather inteligence about the best way to print for museum framing, borders, costs and avoiding dry mounting.
Tonight I think I will try to mod my Nikon F3 prism. I will attempt to remove the Nikon badge from my prism to allow full utilization of the upward travel provided by my trick Olympus 24/3.5 shift lens in Nikon F-mount. Currently there is an interference. My F3P now is an important camera again. Somehow over twenty years of use it has become part of me, especially this particular F3P. Love that it has a motorized film rewind, because not only is it a fast shooter, I already know that it will be utilized to shoot mucho film. I'm so glad that I have a 24mm FOV again for my Nikon SLR.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Sam,
It's really good to be back. Handicaps are difficult to live with. Can't imagine living anywhere else but NYC.
The weather in Hong Kong would be really good for my health, and I imagine life in Hong Kong is kinda out of control on the scale of New York. Perhaps even worse because those Chinese are kinda crazy. I can say that because I know, I'm Chinese. LOL.
Anyways leaving NYC for me is kinda like a death sentence or like being on death row waiting to die.
Cal
I agree Cal... you've influenced me in this regard and when it comes to having a no drama relationship. I've calmed down over the years and while I need more work, my life just keeps getting better.
sjauch
Established
For the past year I've been saying I'm going to make one of these events. It finally looks like I'll have a free Sunday so plan on heading over.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
John,
Some things are important, and many other things are not really needed to be happy.
What I find so interesting is all around me I see many people who are raging out of control who also have no meaning in their lives. Here at work I deal with many anxious people who kinda make no sense and have a great propensity to get just plain crazy. I wonder how many people create stressful lives to avoid being in the moment. I should know because I was very guilty of this behavior.
I don't need drama in my own life, but all around me is drama if I want to pay attention to it. In a way the world is a stage/theater, but most of the time it is just like bad TV. LOL.
As photographers how can we not observe the human condition all around us? In many ways whenever I shoot urban landscape, people, or use macrovision for some detail to me it all is "street photograpghy" to me even if its can be viewed as an artifact or anthopoloy (the study of man).
If I seem imbalanced because I need photograpghy for my identity or as a framework for my life, I think I am a better person for it. The main thing is that I/we are both growing as both individuals and as persons. Kindness is a good thing BTW.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
John,
Low maintenance women are the way to go as far as relationships go. Call me a lazy slacker, but I don't want to have to work hard when I don't have to.
Cal
Crazy Fedya
Well-known
Very well put. I also consider photography as part of anthropology, way to document human condition on different stages of civilization. In my mind that applies to all kind of photography, including fashion, wedding, commercial, etc. i find that people photograph things that surround them in daily lives. Commercial photographs are of things that sell. Wedding images reflect social situation in society. Cameras are time machines of sorts.
I agree completely.