@artistmichelle I have this vision of one goose laying down behind you... and other herding you backwards till you trip ( like the old school yard trick) and all the geese laughing....
For that I was actually in a pool with my Canon Rebel. Probably not such a great idea...
I don't have a tripod or anything like that with me at school. So if I want self portraits I have to put my camera on a ledge or a bench of something, and thinking back putting my camera on a ledge in a city anyone can come and take it.
And then with this, I probably just should not have stood around the hive of bees. I had a few that landed on me but thankfully none stung me.
@cadair8 yeah yes all fine examples of things that could have gone very wrong! btw The bee is great...
and a plastic shopping bag with a hole for the lens, held on by the lens hood, so you can put your head in the normal opening of the bag, works well and cheap to protect the camera... rain, splashes, ect...
@icywarm Plastic shopping bags are the best! When I go out, I always just grab a bag from the pile in the kitchen, instead of my Rain Sleeves.
Let's see... I can't really think of stuff I've done, besides climb up onto all sorts of crazy narrow ledges (thank goodness for 8 years of gymnastics under my built...) to get shots, rickety ladders. Once hung out of a truck window going 50mph to take rolling shots of another car. Some would probably saying trashing two cameras and two lenses shooting the RallyX Nationals was a dumb thing to do (see my August calendar).
@hmgphotos I thought I was following you already... don't know why not...
Anyways... see that is why I have never understood why people spend $5,000 (just a random number) on a camera... the D80 is a perfectly good disposible camera... I have a number of film bodies that I use day to day... because I expect at any time they could be trashed...
I got drunk in Venice and decided to shoot oncoming traffic from the middle of the road. The lovely Italian police force didn't like me. My 'friends' ran away.
@cadair8 - On the self-portrait shot - it reminds me of all the people, including me (LOL!!) who leave our laptops 'unattended' in Starbucks or other coffee shop when we go to the restroom, etc. No one will steal it, right?
Actually burning my finger for the shot! Dedication.
The earlier attempts at an interesting shot on this day involved shining the torch directly onto my eye and trying to light paint with my eyeball. I actually just blinded myself for a few minutes.
Getting less serious now but this one made me feel like a total divvy spacker poser retard (some would say: accurately)
Hehe, in related news @icywarm I did take a bloody brilliant photo of my mate on his bike while I was alongside him in my car, a few years ago in France. Not sure where it is... also that was with a PoS. Using an SLR in the car... man, much potential for danger!
It occurred to me after the fact...well, actually after Robert and Brad's comments under my photo. Going into an abandoned building by myself to take photos wasn't one of my better ideas. Especially because this one wasn't abandoned like I thought. Duh, stupid curiosity, I just can't help myself sometimes. Yep, I felt pretty dumb as the comments rolled in...
Do you guys ever feel like your camera is kind of like a shield? Weird.
@icywarm Aww, but it's such a great shot of that bighorn. I would have been right there with you...in fact, probably right in his face to get a close-up, lol
@clarissajohal Thanks... there was three of them and they seemed skittish... I kept back a bit... but if they charged I would have had two options A) jump down cliff B) crumple into a ball and cry...
i jammed my feet in a crevice overlooking tuckerman's rivine on mt. washington(...for those of you who know how steep that is..) so i could hang off the edge to take a picture of the prettiest flowers i'd ever seen. shot was beautiful though
My very first photo for this project, I singed my fingers and probably got the camera warmer than was really good for it.
Being absolutely terrified of spiders you would think I would know a poisonous spider when saw one and not get too close to it. Not only that the flash scared it so it ran under the wood burning stove, which I then made my husband move to kill the spider.
This started out as nails scratching in the dirt and somehow turned into me burying myself in the firepit. I'm happy with how it turned out, but not how completely filthy I got. I left a trail of grime behind me to the sink when I came in the house too.
I don't have the evidence - not here at least, but the dumbest thing I did was to take pictures of two guys collecting honey from a beehive. It was in Burkina Faso, where we had funded a honey project. They'd just got all their protective kit on and looked like spacemen. It was so bee tight you would have thought it would have got me thinking. The thing is, the whole village seemed to forget their sense too. They weren't used to white folk visiting and so I was something of a spectacle - or maybe they knew what the spectacle would be!! I didn't have a zoom and wanted a great action shot with all the smoke and a few bees... quite a few bees ...in fact a hell of a lot of bees and suddenly a swarm of AFRICAN bees - not as gentle as our bees. I have never run so fast in all my life! I was crying laughing as, whilst my own situation was funny, it was made funnier still by all these villagers running whilst simultaneously whacking themselves or the air with branches. The team I'd come out with had been too afraid and had locked themselves in the car, but now they were screaming at me to get in the car. Trouble is, some bees followed me in, so the chaos that had been going on outside was now happening in the confined space of four wheel drive with four other people, only minus the branches. Lucky that no-one got stung. That in temperatures in the late 30s. Still, they were pleased with the pictures back in the UK.
My dad and mum had a similar story about the goat that kicked over their beehive. That tale was told to the very end of thier lives, and I guess this one will stay with this foolish woman too. LOL! I will tell you about how my photographic exertions ripped a gaping hole in my trousers - right across my derriere - another time!!
Hahaha. I am laughing so much at this thread. I am getting weird looks from others.
I guess the most stupid thing I have done is stand in the middle of the Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris taking photos, the traffic around the Arc de Triomphe is totally insane and there is a reason why you use the underground walkways.
Possibly this was one of the dumbest things I've done. Apart from the usual truly scary snakes and spiders to be found in the bushland around here and through which I trudged to get to this spot, I then stood being buzzed by dozens of very angry-sounding bees who did not seem to like my trespassing in their kitchen, while I took dozens of shots to get the one that actually turned out okay.
I have photographed bees far too close (it truly is a miracle I have never been stung!) as well as a black widow that was promptly killed after the session. I have also taken pictures while driving and while browsing in stores. The worst was probably when I was belly to the ground near the bike path that runs along the river taking pictures of the new pipevine swallowtail butterflies. People kept stopping because they thought I was hurt. It didn't help that I was crying because I was so moved by the experience I had with the butterflies! One actually came to rest on my hand as it's wings unfurled and dried. I was blown away!
@fluffy I was laughing writing it!! It was comic. We obviously have the same skidding-on-a-banana-skin sense of humour. I am just glad no-one got stung as a result of my stupidity!!
@miranda riped jeans... sigh... too many pairs to count! But what I like best is you brought the danger to people who wanted nothing to do with it back in the 4x4!
@canberrabec or you are just way smarter than all of us!
I've probably embarrassed myself many of times while taking pictures in public. In fact, just a few weeks ago, I was bored in a department store so I decided to take some pictures of ridiculous looking shoes. I thought the picture would look better if the shoes were on my feet, so I started crawling around looking for my size. Since I was by myself I had to stretch out my arm as far as it would go to take the picture of my own foot....But the problem was, the lighting and background were not suitable for what I thought the picture should be, so there I was...limping around with a purse, a shoe box, one bare foot and a five inch heel on the other!! All the while trying to avoid people altogether, but I still got a few strange looks haha!
Standing WAAAY too close to a feeding juvi grizzly bear at yellowstone, with the mother known to be in the area but exact location unknown. My theory was there were larger people closer to the bear than me, and since Steve Irwin and Robert Capa got to die doing what they loved why couldn't I?
I had to smoke 12 packets of cigarettes to get this shot ... And I don't smoke, but do now have one of those microphone things to hold against my throat when I wish to speak.
well, i dont have the shot here, but i did lean incredibly too far over the hand rails at the zoo to get a shot of a wolf laying under a tree, the tree was right next to me, which means the wolf was directly below me about 20 feet down. but i just had to have the shot through the leaves looking down on the wolf and it turned out great, i could have been lunch or at the least fallen and broke something but hey it was worth it!
I didn't get hurt taking this picture... but I was walking in a deserted area at night with my camera out in the open. Probably not the safest idea.
And considering my fear of bees...
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For that I was actually in a pool with my Canon Rebel. Probably not such a great idea...
I don't have a tripod or anything like that with me at school. So if I want self portraits I have to put my camera on a ledge or a bench of something, and thinking back putting my camera on a ledge in a city anyone can come and take it.
And then with this, I probably just should not have stood around the hive of bees. I had a few that landed on me but thankfully none stung me.
and a plastic shopping bag with a hole for the lens, held on by the lens hood, so you can put your head in the normal opening of the bag, works well and cheap to protect the camera... rain, splashes, ect...
Let's see... I can't really think of stuff I've done, besides climb up onto all sorts of crazy narrow ledges (thank goodness for 8 years of gymnastics under my built...) to get shots, rickety ladders. Once hung out of a truck window going 50mph to take rolling shots of another car. Some would probably saying trashing two cameras and two lenses shooting the RallyX Nationals was a dumb thing to do (see my August calendar).
Anyways... see that is why I have never understood why people spend $5,000 (just a random number) on a camera... the D80 is a perfectly good disposible camera... I have a number of film bodies that I use day to day... because I expect at any time they could be trashed...
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http://365project.org/shutterbug0810/365/2010-03-26
@cadair8 I really love that bee photo!
@icywarm Fun thread! Should be an interesting read if we get more stories :-)
Actually burning my finger for the shot! Dedication.
The earlier attempts at an interesting shot on this day involved shining the torch directly onto my eye and trying to light paint with my eyeball. I actually just blinded myself for a few minutes.
Getting less serious now but this one made me feel like a total divvy spacker poser retard (some would say: accurately)
For this one I rolled with the bloods for a few months to get the thing just right and ended up doing 25 years for a quadruple homicide.
but I love the convertable... makes driving shots so much easier...
And guilty as charged - dumb American indeed.
(wasn't cut too bad, but it hurt like hell)
And I probably was a little too close to this fight.
(Neither Animal was hurt in the fight)
Do you guys ever feel like your camera is kind of like a shield? Weird.
Being absolutely terrified of spiders you would think I would know a poisonous spider when saw one and not get too close to it. Not only that the flash scared it so it ran under the wood burning stove, which I then made my husband move to kill the spider.
This started out as nails scratching in the dirt and somehow turned into me burying myself in the firepit. I'm happy with how it turned out, but not how completely filthy I got. I left a trail of grime behind me to the sink when I came in the house too.
Taking pictures while driving
My dad and mum had a similar story about the goat that kicked over their beehive. That tale was told to the very end of thier lives, and I guess this one will stay with this foolish woman too. LOL! I will tell you about how my photographic exertions ripped a gaping hole in my trousers - right across my derriere - another time!!
And this was taken while I was driving on the M4 -
I guess the most stupid thing I have done is stand in the middle of the Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris taking photos, the traffic around the Arc de Triomphe is totally insane and there is a reason why you use the underground walkways.
@canberrabec or you are just way smarter than all of us!
*... lie! Very shoddy but good enough for home use.
haha, no - that would be a little extreme! ;)
And considering my fear of bees...
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