[Leica] IMG: Whistler's Sunrise

[jon.streeter at cox.net (jon.streeter)]

This could be part of an entertaining thread:  beautiful photographs 
sabotaged by interlopers.  A couple mine occurred to me immediately.  

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From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Whistler's Sunrise
Date: Fri, Nov 9, 2012 5:08 am


Love it!  Next time you might try obviously taking their photo as they sit
there.  They walked into your photo after all!  Even direct a little and
say "sit a little closer"  "hold her hand"  I guarantee they'll leave!

Tina

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Woke up at 5:30am to try to grab a sunrise, I had pre-spotted a good
> swinging bench to shoot and got down to it at about 5:50am. Set up my
> tripod and camera just across the walking path pointed at the bench swing
> and was standing behind the camera making adjustments looking at the bench.
>
> So along comes a couple about my age, the guy looks me in the eye and sits
> down on the bench with their coffee and proceeds to sit waiting for the
> sunrise. From the straight look at me and then sitting on the bench which I
> was obviously taking a picture of, I figured it wasn't going to do much
> good to ask them to move. The sun had not risen yet; I figured I had about
> 10 minutes before the light became nice and soft just before sunrise.
>
> What to do? I really didn't want a confrontation as I hadn't had my coffee
> yet. So I figured, if this guy looked at me as if saying, "it's a free
> world and I can damn well sit where I want" it was also a free world for me
> to do what I wanted. I started whistling. I choose a nonsensical, made-up
> as I went along "tune" with highs and lows, random synchopation and,
> basically really annoying. It totally ruined a peaceful sunrise experience;
> not too loud, but irritating and constant. I was not going to stop. I just
> happily continued on whistling, pretending to adjust my camera, fiddle and
> basically avoid any eye contact what so ever. I could feel the irritation
> radiating from the bench. But I just kept on whistling...
>
> After about 10 minutes, They got up and stepped to the side of the bench. I
> immediately stopped whistling, waited a few seconds for a bit more glow and
> began taking photos. I never whistled another note and they did not venture
> into my field of view and after a few minutes left. I felt the guy wanted
> to come over and say something, but I think I had given him exactly what he
> had given me, so there really was no offensive (no pun intended) tact he
> could take.
>
> The sunrise wasn't all that great, but I really like the story!
>  http://www.rgaphoto.com/Kauai/content/Sunrise1Pano_large.html
>
> Best,
> Whistlin' Bob
>
> --
> Bob Adler
>
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