Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Arnold [mailto:osprey@bmt.net] >Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 2:16 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] All good things must >By way of supplementing, and not disagreeing, I submit that >(in addition to >"apiator") another word for beekeeper is "apiarist." So if English were a logical language, a person who keeps birds could be called an "aviator"???? >But whatever you call them, they still get stung, netting and smoke >notwithstanding. I got over my fear of bees on a photo shoot many years ago. Long sleeves, gloves, and a bee-keeper's veiled hat kept me sting-free. I remember standing to one side of the hive entrance and watching this river of bees flying past me, totally indifferent to my presence. Until I raised my Spotmatic, of course - then they all swarmed me making a noise that sounded like "MMMMMMMMMMMMMM" - gently reminding me that they would have preferred to be photographed with a less intrusive German camera. I took their advice not long after :-) Paul