It's not just on the PDML that I am a complete jerk.
MARK !
Kenneth Waller
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----- Original Message -----
From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PESO: Eye Candy
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Savage"
Subject: Re: PESO: Eye Candy
I was tempted by the wider glass for a while. But I use my 6x7 so
infrequently...
The last time my 6x7 kit was used was several years ago by the studio
owner I work with. I think I already had the istD, so it was probably in
2004. The DSLRs didn't have the resolution yet for what he needed, so he
used the 6x7. I used it in the spring of 2003 to photograph the an
overview of a poker tournament at our local casino (a great story about
security guard stupidy came from this one *).
Prior to that, I haven't used it for much of anything since the fall of
2002.
*So, I got sent out to shoot some overviews of a large card room where a
bunch of wannabe card sharps were playing Texas Hold'em (whatever, I know
nothing of this stuff).
Everything was arranged, I had been assigned a time to arrive, and a
window of time to shoot in. I got to the casino when I was supposed to,
and checked in with the person I was supposed to check in with, and was
ushered to a wrap around balcony and was told to go crazy, but could I
please not take longer than a half hour or so.
Security person #1 buggers off.
I notice, as I am setting up that I have attracted the attention of some
security drones on the floor below me.
Security goon #2 comes up and asks me what I am doing. I explain that I am
photographing the room, and gave him the name of the contact person at the
casino.
He goes away and confers with another goon.
Security goon #3 comes along and points vaguely at someone on the floor
who might show up as a coloured blob at best (probably 200 feet away) and
tells me that I can't have that person in my photographs.
At this point I have pretty much run out of patience with these morons.
I tell him that I am contracted to be there and that his bosses are paying
me to be there, doing what I am doing, and if said person doesn't want to
be in my pictures, perhaps a half hour trip to the bathroom might be in
order for her, and that he could make himself very useful by getting the
hell out of my way, and perhaps escort the unwilling subject to said
bathroom.
This went over well......
So, he gets a little more pompous with me and starts blathering about how
she is a member of the CIA and that her cover could be blown if there are
pictures of her.
At this point, I completely lost it on the guy, telling him that presuming
he wasn't completely full of shit, I wouldn't really care if a foriegn
spy's cover got blown, what the hell was she spying on at a casino in
Asshole Saskatchewan, and that I was, in reality, an agent for the FBI
checking on criminal gambling activities on foreign soil by members of the
CIA, that he was close to blowing my cover, and that if he did, I'd see to
it that his security guard days were over and that he'd end up in the next
cell over from the "CIA agent".
It's not just on the PDML that I am a complete jerk.
Eventually he just went away and I got to do my job.
William Robb
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