Are we a bit weird?

Tendy wrote in post #10233102
Oh holy mother of Darwin I could just imagine my kids face if I went to pick them up from school wearing one of these!:

http://www.crazynfunny​.com …own-ghillie-suit/stories/

HAHAHAHA! I would pay money to see the expression.

Come on Jeffrey, this is disingenuous.

It's dumb-a$$ statements like this that are just as bad as people talking $hi4 about photography when they don't know anything about it.

Golfers don't "wander" around, they rarely hit into "into the woods where it gets lost". Yes, I know it happens occasionally, but to act like that's what the sport is about is stupid.

Do you really think they are "wasting" their time when it's as much their passion as photography is ours?

That said, (at least out here), most all the courses cost more than $50...

JeffreyG wrote in post #10223587
Spending fifty bucks to waste four hours hitting a small ball into the woods where it gets lost strikes me as a bit wierd too, but lots of people do it. They even spend thousands of dollars on the clubs so they can wander around losing balls.

^^Methinks someone had a sense of humour bypass!

neilwood32 wrote in post #10235579
^^Methinks someone had a sense of humour bypass!

+1. Musta hit a nerve.

JeffreyG wrote in post #10223587
Spending fifty bucks to waste four hours hitting a small ball into the woods where it gets lost strikes me as a bit wierd too, but lots of people do it. They even spend thousands of dollars on the clubs so they can wander around losing balls.

That's kind of how I feel about fishing. Been there,got bored by that

photoguy6405 wrote in post #10235637
+1. Musta hit a nerve.

Maybe a bad round with lots of lost balls!:p

Old golfers never die. They just lose their balls.

Tendy wrote in post #10235727
That's kind of how I feel about fishing. Been there,got bored by that

Fishing is ingenious.

Where else can you sit on your butt all day drinking beer and call yourself a "sportsman"?

photoguy6405 wrote in post #10235637
+1. Musta hit a nerve.

LOL!! No - he severed it!!

birdfromboat wrote in post #10223616
My college age daughters are my source of information on all things cool, and sorry to say, we are not cool. Female photographers with eclectic taste in clothing are way cool and that goofy punk with the Nikon chimping on TV is cool, but any male over fourty with a camera is a cross between a creeper and a junior high school science teacher on the cool scale, the bigger the lens the closer to the creeper end of that scale. Lets just face it, we all need brand new BMW convertables or at least Land rovers to make up for it. sorry.

As a "male over forty," (actually, over 60) I really don't care whether non-photographers think I'm "cool" or not. I will take my camera where I want when I want and take the pictures I want.

That said, a garage where I'm having my car repaired isn't a place I'm going to take my camera. I got over the "take my camera everywhere" syndrome a long, long time ago and I now take it with me only when I definitely know I'm going to be shooting.

krb wrote in post #10223245
Every body is a bit weird in one way or another.

Amen. You are just talking degrees here. Everyone is strange if you get to know them well enough. Some, you can tell at a glance. Others, a few years.