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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / August 2005Get a load of this!
http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm This happened on Saturday just a few clicks up the coast from me. A light aircraft crashed into this house. Miraculously none of the passengers was killed (or the pilot). The owner of the house was playing bowls. The passengers were German tourists who were looking for an aerial view of Durban before they flew back to Germany on Friday. I guess they got a closer look than they expected!  SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces >http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >of Durban before they flew back to Germany on Friday. I guess they got a >closer look than they expected! As they used to say, any landing you walk away from is a good one. David SignatureDavid Littlewood > As they used to say, any landing you walk > away from is a good one. Reminds me of when I see news stories about mountain climbers getting stranded in blizzards and getting rescued. They always mention that the climbers are "in good spirits". Well, duh!, of course they're in good spirits... they're alive. They can now see their families again and live to climb another day. Yes, but after a great landing you are able to use the plane again. > As they used to say, any landing you walk away from is a good one. > > David > Yes, but after a great landing you are able to use the plane again. > >> As they used to say, any landing you walk away from is a good one. >> >> David Maybe it was one of those new, "single use" planes... >> Yes, but after a great landing you are able to use the plane again. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Maybe it was one of those new, "single use" planes... Yeah....There's no gas cap, but they come with one full tank..... >>Yes, but after a great landing you are able to use the plane again. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Maybe it was one of those new, "single use" planes... Great seguay into Kodak - and the subject of this forum... In article <MPG.1d7537c6b3d3bd28989695@news.mweb.co.za>, The story continues... http://tinyurl.com/8nv48 SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces > In article <MPG.1d7537c6b3d3bd28989695@news.mweb.co.za>, > > The story continues... > > http://tinyurl.com/8nv48 No image on that page. -Come on, Dallas! Submit a photo to that site! :) > The story continues... > > http://tinyurl.com/8nv48 Note at the bottom of the page: South Africa Fantastic Deals on Flights. Thousands of Deals. Affiliate. www.kelkoo.co.uk Signaturehttp://www.petezilla.co.uk > In article <MPG.1d7537c6b3d3bd28989695@news.mweb.co.za>, > > The story continues... > > http://tinyurl.com/8nv48 authorities could continue their investigations as to why the plane crashed into pensioner Alwyn Field's home in Danville Avenue. Thats easy he probably left his landing light on. > authorities could continue their investigations as to why the > plane crashed into pensioner Alwyn Field's home in > Danville Avenue. > > Thats easy he probably left his landing light on. I'm guessing the pilot just saw it said "Alwyn Field" and misunderstood... Peter >The passengers were German tourists who were looking for an aerial view >of Durban before they flew back to Germany on Friday. I guess they got a >closer look than they expected! Maybe they spotted a free deck chair. Where was it, Umhlanga? SignatureKen Tough > >The passengers were German tourists who were looking for an aerial view > >of Durban before they flew back to Germany on Friday. I guess they got a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Where was it, Umhlanga? Close. Danville Avenue is in Durban North (or Glenashley, to be precise). The Virginia Airport is just a few kilometers away from where this happened. SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces > http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > of Durban before they flew back to Germany on Friday. I guess they got a > closer look than they expected! If I were you, I would have been snapping photos for submission to your local paper/web news. > > http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm > > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > If I were you, I would have been snapping photos for submission to your > local paper/web news. The newspaper had plenty of photos - the online edition is very frugal with photos though. However, if you were me, you would be sitting in the office fielding enquiries from would-be customers. SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces In article <OSJOe.8448$Us5.1665@fed1read02>, "Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> says... > > http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm > > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > If I were you, I would have been snapping photos for submission to your > local paper/web news. The newspaper had plenty of photos - the online edition is very frugal with photos though. However, if you were me, you would be sitting in the office fielding enquiries from would-be customers. ----------------------------------- Customers? That's a good thing I guess... Sitting in an office? Not so good... SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces > http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > of Durban before they flew back to Germany on Friday. I guess they got a > closer look than they expected! But how is it ARTISTIC Dallas? Especially with the DATE STAMP in the lower corner. (Sorry, just giving some back) That is pretty nutty, tho. I've been saying it since the Battle of Britain - Germans and airplanes just don't mix. Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird > That is pretty nutty, tho. I've been saying it since the Battle of > Britain - Germans and airplanes just don't mix. You're older than I thought. -Mike > > That is pretty nutty, tho. I've been saying it since the Battle of > > Britain - Germans and airplanes just don't mix. > > You're older than I thought. > > -Mike Don't get me started on the 1890s... decade of sin, that was! Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird >> http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > That is pretty nutty, tho. I've been saying it since the Battle of > Britain - Germans and airplanes just don't mix. I was going to scoff at this, and I Googled the Red Baron, but then I came upon this: Manfred von Richthofen was a sportsman and a hunter. By his own admission he was not a great pilot. In his book he expressed amusement at the fact that an opponent he brought down made a perfect landing whilst his attempt at the same feat, at the same time, was disastrous. > But how is it ARTISTIC Dallas? Especially with the DATE STAMP in the > lower corner. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > That is pretty nutty, tho. I've been saying it since the Battle of > Britain - Germans and airplanes just don't mix. Not my photograph. It was sent to me by somebody who lives nearby. SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces > > But how is it ARTISTIC Dallas? Especially with the DATE STAMP in the > > lower corner. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Not my photograph. It was sent to me by somebody who lives nearby. But if it was your photograph, oh, the delicious irony! Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird > > > But how is it ARTISTIC Dallas? Especially with the DATE STAMP in the > > > lower corner. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > But if it was your photograph, oh, the delicious irony! You'd like that, wouldn't you? I've taken loads of crap photos, but the difference is I don't make them public. SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces >> > > But how is it ARTISTIC Dallas? Especially with the DATE STAMP in the >> > > lower corner. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I've taken loads of crap photos, but the difference is I don't make them > public. Smart man! That's the dirty little secret behind even the greatest photogs... -That they have piles and piles of rejects nobody knows about. The result is...everyone assumes they shoot only gems! Not so. Not by a long, long road. It helps me to remind myself of this from time to time. :) > Smart man! > That's the dirty little secret behind even the greatest photogs... [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > It helps me to remind myself of this from time to time. > :) I don't think it's a secret in any way. Any photographer who thinks that everything he shoots is somehow wonderful will surely bump his head. Even musicians will tell you that somedays they play like crap. I think personal websites and galleries should be a display of your best work. Unfortunately most of my best work is not on my site, since it is all done with slides. However, my scanner should be here in a few days so I hope to rectify that soon! SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces In article <2VWOe.8554$Us5.1058@fed1read02>, "Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> says... > Smart man! > That's the dirty little secret behind even the greatest photogs... [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > It helps me to remind myself of this from time to time. > :) I don't think it's a secret in any way. Any photographer who thinks that everything he shoots is somehow wonderful will surely bump his head. Even musicians will tell you that somedays they play like crap. I think personal websites and galleries should be a display of your best work. Unfortunately most of my best work is not on my site, since it is all done with slides. However, my scanner should be here in a few days so I hope to rectify that soon! Yes....The problem is simple to solve. I only intend to scan my best slides into my computer....The rest will lie buried in a box in my attic for a hundred years......As a matter of fact, since scanning them isn't a destructive process, they will ALL lie buried in a box in my attic for a hundred years...... >"Rox-off" <roxy@empirerods.com> wrote in message > >news:MPG.1d7783c1452ba84d9896a0@news.mweb.co.za... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >everything he shoots is somehow wonderful will surely bump his head. >Even musicians will tell you that somedays they play like crap. I'm not saying the photogs think they take only gems... I'm saying that many non-photogs tend to not realize jsut how many photos taken by the great photogs are crap. -Because they see only the goods, they assume they're all pretty good. This isn't exclusive to photography at all. When we're with company, we put on our better behavior. As a reult, our marriages tend to look better than they are to our friends, and our house seems cleaner (since we clean the house for company, etc.). The result is that people have a natural tendency to assume that others have some things figured out much better than they themselves do. Sometimes they really DO...but all too often people tend to think they must be crappy at this or that, when, if they could see the "non-company house" or the "non-company" version of their friend's marriage...they wouldn't feel so inferior. :) If you look for this tendency, you'll identify it in just about all fields/homes/ settings/people to a certain extent. >I think personal websites and galleries should be a display of your best >work. If you're trying to sell something, yes. Or if you want people to come back to your site, yes. >Unfortunately most of my best work is not on my site, since it is >all done with slides. However, my scanner should be here in a few days >so I hope to rectify that soon! > > But if it was your photograph, oh, the delicious irony! > > You'd like that, wouldn't you? > > I've taken loads of crap photos, but the difference is I don't make them > public. Aren't you special. I was ribbing you, you sour, bitter man! Get a sense of humor! Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird > > > But if it was your photograph, oh, the delicious irony! > > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I was ribbing you, you sour, bitter man! Get a sense of humor! So was I, you obnoxious dummy. SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces >> > > But if it was your photograph, oh, the delicious irony! >> > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > So was I, you obnoxious dummy. Hey! Watch your language, pal! How DARE you use a word like, "dummy" when children might be reading! :) > > I was ribbing you, you sour, bitter man! Get a sense of humor! > So was I, you obnoxious dummy. Were you, you libidinous rankard?! Actually, I just made up rankard. What should we have it mean? Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird > > > I was ribbing you, you sour, bitter man! Get a sense of humor! > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Actually, I just made up rankard. What should we have it mean? One who enjoys the work of Rankin? SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces > > Actually, I just made up rankard. What should we have it mean? > > One who enjoys the work of Rankin? Done and done! Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird >> > > But how is it ARTISTIC Dallas? Especially with the DATE STAMP in the >> > > lower corner. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >I've taken loads of crap photos, but the difference is I don't make them >public. Or, to paraphrase a rather sexist remark a colleague of mine is fond of making: I've never taken a crap photo, but I've sure got home with a lot. David SignatureDavid Littlewood > http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > of Durban before they flew back to Germany on Friday. I guess they got a > closer look than they expected! How far is a 'click'? > > http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > How far is a 'click'? I think he means 'klick' which is slang for "kilometer." Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird >>>http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm >>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > I think he means 'klick' which is slang for "kilometer." True, and old army jeep odometers included a "klicker" mechanism to audibly inform the driver of distance traveled. Signaturejer email reply - I am not a 'ten' > > http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > How far is a 'click'? One kilometer. SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces >> > http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm >> > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > One kilometer. Hmm. That's the 6th answer version now... ??? It sounds like that term is one of those loose ones, sort of like a "bunch" or a "few." ?? > > One kilometer. > > Hmm. > That's the 6th answer version now... > ??? I SAID IT WAS ONE KILOMETER. DOESN'T ANYONE LISTEN! ARRHT%JS%J%$#~ Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird >> > One kilometer. >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > ARRHT%JS%J%$#~ Ya, but now we've got: -.62 lilometer... -Some funny click thing attached to a Jeep... -A click that a gun sight makes...on both artillary and a rifle... -and more! So stick that in your &^%#%$#$*&$!! :) > Ya, but now we've got: > -.62 lilometer... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > So stick that in your &^%#%$#$*&$!! I'll stick your #@$(^(@&W in a % (&Y#(&Y#@ you ($ ^(&^@(~! ;P Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird > Ya, but now we've got: > -.62 lilometer... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > So stick that in your &^%#%$#$*&$!! With all those "Ya's" you say, you'll fit right in here in SA. It's probably the most commonly used colloquialism in this country. But, Rich did say 0.62 of a mile, which is one kilometer. And the jeep probably counts them as it goes along the way. Here we call a "click" a kilometer. Or something you do with a mouse. SignatureSave Photography | Shoot some film today! Email: drop rods and insert surfaces >"Rox-off" <roxydurban@empirerods.com> wrote in message > >news:MPG.1d76601c82d70a9198969d@news.mweb.co.za... [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >With all those "Ya's" you say, you'll fit right in here in SA. It's >probably the most commonly used colloquialism in this country. Ya? You don't say... I used to have an afro...does that count? > Ya? > You don't say... > > I used to have an afro...does that count? Only if you want to learn how to speak Zulu, or Xhosa, or one of those languages. We say "Ya" a lot, but it is a throw-back from the Afrikaans, Dutch or German "Ja". Nothing to do with traditional Africans... SignatureSave photography | shoot some film today! email: drop rods and insert surfaces "Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> wrote in message > I used to have an afro...does that count? what was his name? > "Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> wrote in message > I > used to have an afro...does that count? > > what was his name? "The Fuzz" >>Ya, but now we've got: >>-.62 lilometer... [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > But, Rich did say 0.62 of a mile, which is one kilometer. And the jeep > probably counts them as it goes along the way. U.S. Army jeeps were built stateside with imperial speedometers and odometers. The metric sounder was an add-on to allow rank-n-file personnel to use metric codings from European maps. This sounder was attached to the dash just below the steering column and was driven with the same drive cable between the dash guage and left front wheel. The trick to using the early models effectively was to avoid losing the counting fingers. A later model offered a two-digit odometer inside a squinchy little window, but considering the constant exposure to the elements, they quickly acquired a rusted patina, hence the term squinchy. Ya, I used the requisite word "exposure". :) > Here we call a "click" a kilometer. Or something you do with a mouse. Signaturejer email reply - I am not a 'ten' >>> > http://www.dallasdahms.com/Plane.htm >>> > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > "bunch" or a "few." > ?? Yeah.....I think it comes from the sound that an adjustment wheel makes as it goes through the detents that keep it from wandering when unattended. Also the steps of an old fashioned mechanical odometer....So, it can mean different things to different disciplines...... |
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