The OLDER Photographers' thread...

I need to stop taking cameras to work, especially film bodies...

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Harleypugs wrote in post #11267375
Put over 12K on my Harley the first year I got it...all under its own power....

my first Harley, i put 25k on that season and 2 back tires

My first bike was a Harley. It was all I could afford.

A 1936 EL: http://www.motorcyclem​useum.org/classics/bik​e.asp?id=29

No, I didn't buy it new!

-js

number six wrote in post #11268374
My first bike was a Harley. It was all I could afford.

A 1936 EL: http://www.motorcyclem​useum.org/classics/bik​e.asp?id=29

No, I didn't buy it new!

-js

very nice! i almost built a replica similar to that but the customer flaked

advaitin wrote in post #11264861
It's funny, but I can't think of much that would prevent someone my age from photographing most events. In retrospect, I know I no longer have the ability to keep up with a company of Infantry--that was for my 18 to 30 year self--but give me a means of transport, no walker, thank you, and I can shoot action as well as I ever could.

Seeing the helicopter shot reminded me of the time I covered off-shore racing from a helicopter, at age 60, with 7 or 8 other helicopters skimming around in the same section of sky and water while high-powered boats threw up waves of water. I didn't have to worry about the possibilities, just sit there and shoot. The pilot has to pass a physical, but not the photographer,

Beautiful shots!
Love the second one, where the helicopter shadow looks like it's riding on the edge of the boat!
Long may you keep shots like that coming...

advaitin wrote in post #11264861
It's funny, but I can't think of much that would prevent someone my age from photographing most events. In retrospect, I know I no longer have the ability to keep up with a company of Infantry--that was for my 18 to 30 year self--but give me a means of transport, no walker, thank you, and I can shoot action as well as I ever could.

Seeing the helicopter shot reminded me of the time I covered off-shore racing from a helicopter, at age 60, with 7 or 8 other helicopters skimming around in the same section of sky and water while high-powered boats threw up waves of water. I didn't have to worry about the possibilities, just sit there and shoot. The pilot has to pass a physical, but not the photographer,

stunning photos advaitin

skygod44 wrote in post #11269180
Beautiful shots!
Love the second one, where the helicopter shadow looks like it's riding on the edge of the boat!
Long may you keep shots like that coming...

FJ LOVE wrote in post #11271602
stunning photos advaitin

Thanks guys. It's been more than three years since I've done work for hire. Thank goodness my wife and I are in a position to enjoy life more and worry less these days. When you get over 60, they start shutting doors on you, even when you are willing to work for less just to have fun doing what you do. I'm working on a Flickr set that will contain my pages from the last full-time job I had, editing out some details before posting it.

here's a couple of shots that were used for covers:

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As promised, here's a link to my collections on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/​photos/clgriffin/colle​ctions/

And to my time as writer, photographer and editor of the Daytona Sun Times. These are tearsheets, essentially, so select the highest resolution for reading the articles. This is the closer link:

http://www.flickr.com …ctions/72157625​251198365/

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Thanks for the links....will peruse at my leisure

And on to other odd things that we OLDER photographers have under our belts = gallons of good stories while on a shoot...or otherwise!

I was on a shoot for a family last night, and they wanted me stay afterwards for dinner. Well, Japanese food has never caused me many issues but last night was another "first" for me.

The smell was wonderful, and I guessed right that 'pork' was on the menu, but it was only after I'd dived into my bowl with some chopsticks and pulled out an odd "lump" that I realised I was about to eat pigs' bones!!!
With a side-dish of black seaweed.

Errrrrr......

[Have to add, it WAS delicious!!!]

^^ Was it realy bones ? Or just the feet ?

Here in my family it's a treat to eat boiled pig jaws, I know some of you would think thats disgusting, but if you can cope with the contence of the meat, it's actualy quite delicious; - it tastes like a cows heart.

Pigs' trotters have, of course, been eaten for centuries in this country.

redjamesg wrote in post #11280827
^^ Was it really bones ? Or just the feet ?

Here in my family it's a treat to eat boiled pig jaws, I know some of you would think that's disgusting, but if you can cope with the contents of the meat, it's actually quite delicious; - it tastes like a cows heart.

No, no...it really was bones!
I can't remember what they called it, but the cut of meat is quite tricky to get right, and within it are bones about the size of human finger-bones.
These are cooked for about 2 hours and they become oddly soft.

But soooooo delicious!
I was pleasantly surprised.

Roy Mathers wrote in post #11280860
Pigs' trotters have, of course, been eaten for centuries in this country.

Not only yours but many others. They were a favourite of my mom's as well.

Pickled pig's feet in big jars used to be available all over the south. Haven't noticed them much, lately.

I've never been a fan of strong-flavored and/or bone-filled fish. Living in Japan was a bit of a challenge for me. There were fish I liked and tuna is great raw, but Japanese tastes include just about anything that swims, creeps, crawls, or affixes itself to a rock. You haven't tasted gross until you've tried the slime from a giant snail boiled for hours in saltwater with a lot of other shelled critters.

When we were at Misawa Air Base there was a pizza place just outside the main gate owned by an Ex-GI American who married a local girl and stayed. His wife made the best fried chicken strips ever and had her own little bar where that was the specialty. There was a local young man working at the pizza place as a bartender and waiter who was very friendly. Since the place offered beers from around the world, I often stopped in to sample a beer from here or there.

Sometimes, when it was slack, the kid would sit down and have a beer along with us or eat his lunch, which was always either pizza or some other western-style food. He spoke excellent English and we talked about many things including my adventures eating out with the boss at the printing plant (it produced the base English newspaper and I, as a dependent husband, was employed to check the proofs for errors) who introduced me to things like the sludge of an aged snail.

That took us around to what type of fish I liked or didn't like. The Japanese kid lowered his voice and said, "I tell you the truth, I can't stand fish. Everywhere I go with family, friends--it always fish. Fish this-fish that. Raw, cooked. I don't like any of it. But I cannot say this to them. They think I am bad Japanese if I do not eat fish."

I'm adventurous when it comes to food. There hasn't been anything I won't at least try and that list is long and distinguished

I'd like a job like Andrew Zimmern on "Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern". Would be a dream job if my co-host was Giada De Laurentiis