Stradawhovious
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I know I haven't been around too much lately, but I hope you let me back for a while. I couldn't help but share an amusing anecdote with you folks.
I'm down in the Gulf of Mexico on vacation, and the fam decided to take a "dolphin watching"tour. Really, the whole thing was pretty cool. Two boats side by side making a specific type of wake that the dolphins like to frolic in. Pretty neat.
I was doing my best to blend in, wearing my Hawiian shirt covered with different kinds of fish, a floppy hat, some sandals and kewl shades, so I could remain kind of incognito. This helped quite a bit with the people watching.
One of these people was not so efficient at being unnoticed. There was a woman there, who would walk up to everyone carrying a camera (including me) and start a conversation. This conversation for most victims.... er.... I mean people started a bit like this.
Large obnoxious woman in loud pink shirt - "Are you a photographer or a scrapbooker? By the looks of the camea you have, I'd bet you are a scrapbooker. Me? Well, I'm a photographer. I have been ever since I bought this baby. [pats her Canon T1i with an absurdly long kit lens hanging off of it] If you want I can give you some pointers."
Which she did........Unsolicited.........To virtually everyone. It was actually quite humorous. I followed here around the boat so I could hear the different discussions. The advice was priceless.
She eventually made her pitch to me. She opened her conversation with, "So with a camera like that, I assume you're a photogpher like me." Now I wanted to say a lot of things, but by the looks of this woman she could beat the **** out of me. And probably devour me in one sitting, and I'm a big guy (big fat, not big strong). What actually DID come out of my mouth before I could stop myself was this. "What, this? [subtley shakes Gripped D7000] Nah..... I bought this so I could look important, and people would think I'm cool. But really I'm just an amateur." She turned around and muttered "scrapbooker" under her breath as she walked away. :lmao:
This lady was a trip. She was moving little kids out of the way so she could get a picture of dolphins. "Excuse me, I'm a photographer" she'd say as she eclipsed some poor little kid, obscuring their view of the dolphins. Too bad she didn't try that with my kids. I wuold have issued her a nice warm vat of **** off. At the end of it all, she had the audacity to offer her photos for "sale" to the folks coming off the boat. Unfortunately, the folks that ran the business shooed her away before she could make her sales pitch to me. I would have had some fun with that.
So anyhoo, This is my very first contact with a real live obnoxious fauxtograffer in the wild and it was quite the experience.
I'm down in the Gulf of Mexico on vacation, and the fam decided to take a "dolphin watching"tour. Really, the whole thing was pretty cool. Two boats side by side making a specific type of wake that the dolphins like to frolic in. Pretty neat.
I was doing my best to blend in, wearing my Hawiian shirt covered with different kinds of fish, a floppy hat, some sandals and kewl shades, so I could remain kind of incognito. This helped quite a bit with the people watching.
One of these people was not so efficient at being unnoticed. There was a woman there, who would walk up to everyone carrying a camera (including me) and start a conversation. This conversation for most victims.... er.... I mean people started a bit like this.
Large obnoxious woman in loud pink shirt - "Are you a photographer or a scrapbooker? By the looks of the camea you have, I'd bet you are a scrapbooker. Me? Well, I'm a photographer. I have been ever since I bought this baby. [pats her Canon T1i with an absurdly long kit lens hanging off of it] If you want I can give you some pointers."
Which she did........Unsolicited.........To virtually everyone. It was actually quite humorous. I followed here around the boat so I could hear the different discussions. The advice was priceless.
She eventually made her pitch to me. She opened her conversation with, "So with a camera like that, I assume you're a photogpher like me." Now I wanted to say a lot of things, but by the looks of this woman she could beat the **** out of me. And probably devour me in one sitting, and I'm a big guy (big fat, not big strong). What actually DID come out of my mouth before I could stop myself was this. "What, this? [subtley shakes Gripped D7000] Nah..... I bought this so I could look important, and people would think I'm cool. But really I'm just an amateur." She turned around and muttered "scrapbooker" under her breath as she walked away. :lmao:
This lady was a trip. She was moving little kids out of the way so she could get a picture of dolphins. "Excuse me, I'm a photographer" she'd say as she eclipsed some poor little kid, obscuring their view of the dolphins. Too bad she didn't try that with my kids. I wuold have issued her a nice warm vat of **** off. At the end of it all, she had the audacity to offer her photos for "sale" to the folks coming off the boat. Unfortunately, the folks that ran the business shooed her away before she could make her sales pitch to me. I would have had some fun with that.
So anyhoo, This is my very first contact with a real live obnoxious fauxtograffer in the wild and it was quite the experience.
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