Red Ring Tupperware Party, Autumnal Equinoctal Edition (24)

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #17520308
I just drove fast cars, and chased girls.

Did that too, 'cept for the fast cars. A VW Beetle can't be considered a fast car.

I tried javelin in grade 9, dislocated my shoulder, never went back.
I figured out sports later in life. In about grade 10/11 I found a youth group at a nearby church that played every kind of game and sport you could want. All summer we would play baseball, volleyball, soccer, and ultimate frisbee. In the fall we would play road hockey until Thanksgiving Monday (Canadian, so early October) when Saturday football would start. We'd play touch and no-holds-barred full contact, no equipment football until the pond was frozen. As long as the pond was frozen we'd play broomball and hockey. When the pond thawed it was back to road hockey until baseball season started. All year we'd play dodge ball, paintball, and the likes. 11 years ago I started playing in a two pitch ball league, two years later I joined a second one. And I play in a volleyball league in the winter.
I wish that I had been in sports earlier in life, other than in school, but it was too expensive. We did take swimming lessons every summer. I seem to have a natural ability for sports, something that I wish my elementary school teachers/coaches could now see. There was only one year where we had a baseball team in elementary school, I did pretty decent, but after that there were never enough girls to actually field a team. Baseball is now my best sport.

Oh, and I did not drive fast cars or chase girls. I drove either the minivan or a 1978 Ford Pinto. Girls annoyed me, and there were very few boys that I was interested in. I was happy to have friends. Coming from a tiny elementary school where I never fit in, finding people that I fit in with was awesome.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #17520164
If I was starting with new gear all over again, this is the first lens I would buy. For me, the range is perfect for what I mostly shoot, and rarely do I have need for f2.8, so the price and weight savings is nice too.

The 24-105 was the first lens I bought. Followed shortly afterward by the EF-S 10-22 and the EF 50 f/1.4. Those were all used on a 40D.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #17520308
I just drove fast cars, and chased girls.

I was into radios, photography, and motorcycles.

I worked every afternoon/evening, and most weekends in my dad's business, so I never had time for sports. That was probably a good thing since I had very little athletic ability.

Shotput and discus were my venues. No javelin in New York after a kid at a neighboring school got harpooned in the head.

Woolburr wrote in post #17520424
Shotput and discus were my venues. No javelin in New York after a kid at a neighboring school got harpooned in the head.

Our school banished cheer leading. Story was that a cheer leader group decided to not wear their skivvies and that was the end of the sport. I think it probably was because there wasn't the interest, funding, or coaching available.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #17520436


Our school banished cheer leading. Story was that a cheer leader group decided to not wear their skivvies and that was the end of the sport. I think it probably was because there wasn't the interest, funding, or coaching available.

Cheer leading is huge in TX. Sports is huge, band is huge. I wish that my kids would have grown up down here.

My sister and BIL have talked about moving down to Texas. They want to go for the work availability, my sister wants to go for the lack of winter. The rest of us argue all the reasons they should stay here. But I know that my nephew would absolutely love playing football down there!

A friend at work asked me to take his daughter's senior pics. He said he had waited too long to set up a photographer. I think he just wanted 'em done free. After I took them and did some minor tweaks, I gave him a thumb drive with the images at 1024ppi just to view and select from. Then he was to let me know so I could process them properly. He sat on them for three weeks, and just let me know today that they had picked the ones they wanted and sent them in to get invites made.

That's not the first time people have done this. Completely ignored what I tell them, and send unfinished images, some fairly low res, off to the printer. Pisses me off.

LV Moose wrote in post #17520488
A friend at work asked me to take his daughter's senior pics. He said he had waited too long to set up a photographer. I think he just wanted 'em done free. After I took them and did some minor tweaks, I gave him a thumb drive with the images at 1024ppi just to view and select from. Then he was to let me know so I could process them properly. He sat on them for three weeks, and just let me know today that they had picked the ones they wanted and sent them in to get invites made.

That's not the first time people have done this. Completely ignored what I tell them, and send unfinished images, some fairly low res, off to the printer. Pisses me off.

Slap a big watermark across it. No one would want to print that, and most printing places would refuse to anyway. Make it transparent enough to view the photo properly for proofing.

It was his first meet and he did great. Set two records for his grade and school, in long jump and javelin.

Traci_Ann wrote in post #17520564
It was his first meet and he did great. Set two records for his grade and school, in long jump and javelin.

Thats great! Did you get some good shots?

Is it considered a "professional" photo shoot when you're photographed by the Google car? Two different poses and backgrounds?

Just for fun... Jupiter as seen through my 150-600 + 1.4XTC. I think it might have been better if not for heat waves. Cropped extremely heavily

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/rgKA​Sc