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Subject: [Leica] [img] Photographing a piano quartet
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Thu Apr 26 15:45:55 2007
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Kyle, I think the second shot was worth the bout of altitude sickness as 
long as you got down quickly. It's the death zone. Where
was your base camp? Did Sherpas carry your battered body back to floor level?

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Kyle Cassidy
Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 02:17
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] [img] Photographing a piano quartet

The big problem with photographing a piano quartet is that they alwasy
seem to want their pianos in it. And there are four of them. Which means
you have to get above them really far, or above them with the widest
lens you own, which usually means you've borrowed a ladder from some
carpenter that looks pathetically small when you bring it into the room,
but when you're balanced on top of it and one leg is 1/3 of an inch
shorter than the others, it feels like being strapped on top of a 3 inch
diameter birch tree swinging 40 feet in either direction in a strong
breeze and you're so high up you realize you can see the curvature of
the earth. This just gets worse when you look through the aux finder for
your stupidly wide lens and suddenly the planet is naught but a thin
blue disc hurtling away from you, leaving you lost and alone in space,
with your ladder curving down towards the clouds like one leg of the st.
louis arch....
 
Then finally you say "Forget this, I'm having a nosebleed. You're not
getting photos of you and your pianos go stand on that staircase and
look musical."
 
 
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