Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/27

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Subject: [Leica] Bad Dream
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:49:06 -0500
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My nightmare usually involves movie film.  I'm at a remote assignment with
my AAton, and I realize I forgot to bring the negative stock.  Then there's
a search for film, and if I get it, I realize I forgot a changing bag.

Please wake me up!


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> I have nightmares like this so often!!  They usually involve dropping all
> of my film in a river or being robbed of my exposed film after a month-long
> trip.  In my nightmares in Russia and Iran, they confiscate all of my film
> at the airport,  In Honduras and Guatemala, I end up losing the film in the
> river.  The nightmares still wake me up and I remember that I only have to
> keep up with a tiny memory card now.
>
> I agree, it is so much better not to have to worry about all of that stuff!
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Early this morning I had a dream where I was covering an award ceremony
> > and everything went wrong.  I arrived in front of the stage seconds
> before
> > the event, I dumped my camera bag in my haste, barely got a flash set up
> on
> > a light stand, grabbed one of two cameras that were on the floor -
> neither
> > had lenses on them,  then discovered it was fresh out of the box with no
> > strap or memory card or my preferred settings dialed in.  As I fumbled to
> > put on a lens and load a card, the light stand holding the flash fell
> > toward the stage.  I caught it just before it hit the MC on the stage,
> but
> > then it jerked toward the audience.  By this time the first awardees were
> > posing on stage...
> >
> > I was so glad when I woke up and realized I don't have to deal with this
> > anymore.   Whew!!
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> > (Retired)
> > UPAA POY 1978
> > amr3 at uwm.edu
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
> >
> > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
> >  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Tina Manley
> http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com
>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


In reply to: Message from amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak) ([Leica] Bad Dream)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Bad Dream)