The importance of a lens hood

[neil_r]

A couple of weekends ago I was pleasantly surprised when Sunday dawned very bright and sunny. To make the most of this I headed off to Mallory Park to watch and photograph some motorcycle racing. There were several people at the hairpin who were also taking advantage of the sunny conditions. I counted no less than 4 people with lens hoods attached to their various lengths of lens. All well and good you may say, but in each case the hood was reversed on the lens and protecting nothing.

It's a strange world :rolleyes:

[20droger]

It's a strange world :rolleyes:
You just now noticing that?!!

It's a stange world indeed, mostly because of the people in it.

[Quad]

I wonder if they reverse the hood when they put it back in the bag.

[qtaran111]

baseball cap on backwards, lens hood on backwards, what next?

[Bill Roberts]

Stange indeed Neil!
But I gave up worrying about it some years ago :)

cheers

[Killjoy]

baseball cap on backwards, lens hood on backwards, what next?

Pants on backwards. The kids nowadays are already wearing them baggy enough to do that. :rolleyes:

[gjl711]

Pants on backwards. The kids nowadays are already wearing them baggy enough to do that. :rolleyes:If the pants were only backwards. Kids here are wearing them at the knees. It is so goofy lookin' I can't help but laugh when I see'em. What the heck goes thought their heads:

kid: "Hey, look at me, I got my pants around my knees ..."
young lady: "It's so cool when you waddle like a duck. Come on over here, I want to mate with you, you hunk of a duck..."

I just don't get it.

[Killjoy]

If the pants were only backwards. Kids here are wearing them at the knees. It is so goofy lookin' I can't help but laugh when I see'em. What the heck goes thought their heads:

I just don't get it.

There was one kid running across the street (surprisingly enough, he was in the crosswalk), when he tripped because his pants were so low. He picked himself up, and all his crap (change flew everywhere), and finished going across the street.
I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

[neil_r]

It must just be a sign of me getting old but I do not understand how people can wear clothes that are just so difficult to wear.

Last summer I was on a very crowded underground (subway) train and there was a young lad ( 16 - 18 ) standing up. He was wearing a baseball cap on sideways (Backwards would have been just too conventional) a pair of trousers riding so low that you could see his underwear was in need of a wash and the crotch was just about in line with his knees and a pair of trainers that looked at least three sizes to big and unfastened. Boy he looked cool and he knew it. Until the train stopped at his station, he started to make his way down the train through the commuter crush but one of his shoes must have caught on someone's leg or bag and it fell off, he dived down to retrieve it and as he was trying to put it on the train doors closed and it began to pull out of the station, I felt a little embarrassed as I involuntarily burst out laughing but the embarrassment was dissipated or at least transferred to the "Cool Dude" when the rest of the compartment joined in. :cool:

[BillsBayou]

The lens hood was on backwards to protect the rest of the lens from the flying dirt of the motorcycles. (Yes, I'm just making this up)

I spoke with a state trooper friend of mine. He doesn't like the "No Sagging Pants" laws. He says it's easier to catch people on the run when they keep tripping on their own pants. Apparently, well fitting clothing makes him work harder to make an arrest. Go figure.

These morons want to look like they've Gangsta Tough and wear clothes to look like they're "beltless" in prison which leads to them being easier to arrest and PUT in prison.

Is that irony or self-actualization? I don't know which.

[condyk]

baseball cap on backwards, lens hood on backwards, what next?

Isn't there some American saying Assbackwards? I think it could be possible with plastic surgery :-)

Pants on backwards. The kids nowadays are already wearing them baggy enough to do that. :rolleyes:

I was en route to the train station and walking behind a coupla yoofs and the one just kept pulling his pants up continually, also had the too big shoes on making it hard to keep up with his pal and also the 'black guy' waddle some of these guys do like they got a wooden leg of sumfink. I am pretty accepting but I just thought W*****! Fashion just ain't worth it when it gets this assbackwards :lol::lol:

[Killjoy]

These morons want to look like they've Gangsta Tough and wear clothes to look like they're "beltless" in prison which leads to them being easier to arrest and PUT in prison.

Apparently this actually has a different meaning in prison. The lower you wear your pants, the more available you are to another inmate, for gay sex.

I didn't make that up.

[Woolburr]

Apparently this actually has a different meaning in prison. The lower you wear your pants, the more available you are to another inmate, for gay sex.

I didn't make that up.

What makes you think the meaning isn't the same on the street?:lol::lol:

[Killjoy]

What makes you think the meaning isn't the same on the street?:lol::lol:

Uh, I don't. :p

[txduggan]

baseball cap on backwards, lens hood on backwards, what next?

Fruit of the Looms...turned inside out...and hanging from LowePros EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!

And, where's my POTN thong?!?!?!?!

Tom D

[neilwood32]

Fruit of the Looms...turned inside out...and hanging from LowePros EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!

And, where's my POTN thong?!?!?!?!

Tom D

Is that new from the POTN shop?:D

[Greg_C]

Fruit of the Looms...turned inside out...and hanging from LowePros EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!

And, where's my POTN thong?!?!?!?!

Tom D

Is that new from the POTN shop?:D
No, from the T-2 POTN shop.




T-2=R

[Chandler.]

baseball cap on backwards, lens hood on backwards, what next?

Well, the latest trend here in the states is half-backwards feet.

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6701/feet010re6.jpg