Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, I have a variation of this. Next weekend the Brussels-based photography club, Viewfinders, has a group shoot in the UK, around Canterbury. I have successfully convinced my wife to turn it into a family outing, the main attraction for her being the ability to hop on a train to London and do heavy-duty shopping there while I enjoy the Kent countryside with like-minded people. Nathan Ted Grant wrote: > Hey folks, > > Here you are, "Shop & Shoot!" > > This is the way to get out for a solid day of comfortable picture taking > without spouce carrying on about making a "photo widow - widower" out of > them all the time. > > "Hey honey how'd you like to go shopping, you know, a nice day at the > Mall?" Immediately they are caught off guard! In my case she'd think > I'd finally flipped out completely instead of my usual partial. :) > > However, the truth is you want to have the day wandering about quietly > looking for exicting images, without spouce whinng in background, "How > many pictures of that flower, whatever, are you going to take? They all > look the same anyway!" > > Some of you folks know exactly what I mean, Right? :) > > So here's the plan, "Hey honey how about we do a "SHOP & SHOOT? You > shop and I'll shoot," Man their eyes light up on cue to "SHOP!" And > away you go! A happy carefree day of nothing on your mind than happy > snapping the life and times before you. > > Key phrasing, use..... "SHOP" first! After that she wont hear > another word! :) > > You, mentally free, enjoy your Leica shooting in the breeze. It's > wonderful, trust me it works! :) > > ted > > I wont be the drag ass along behind you and you wont feel impedided > with me hovering around like a lost dog in heat! > off - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/