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- gryphonskeeper Aug 21, 2010 04:08 PM
I went out to lunch with a couple of friends to a casual upscale restaurant, while seated and before the server brought our drinks and menus one of the group takes out her cell phone and begins texting. Well... ok... maybe it was an important message.... But this continued through lunch, and was in my opinion rude. Of the 3 of us at lunch only she answered any texts, or even brandished a cell phone (I silence mine when I eat) I expect this from teenagers, they are rude and have zero respect at restaurants it seems, but not a 40 year old woman. I wish restaurants had a NO CELL PHONE zone, like non-smoking.
with you 100%. If you are expecting an important call, or have kids/parents/sig others who may need you, leave it on vibrate & discreetly check if it buzzes. For the duration of most meals, it shouldn't happen more than once, if at all.
My FIL lives by his cell phone & when he is here eating with us I will just say "No cell phones at the table" & he sheepishly puts it away ... til the next night when he does the same damn thing.0
re: elfcook
This is evidence of the downfall of courtesy in our society. Families cannot sit and have a communal dinner; an activity that has been the norm for centuries. It is the event that keeps the family blood flowing. As far as friends; in my opinion, your associate is telling you, non-verbally, "Oh you don't count", I am more important than all of you at the table.0
re: ospreycove
I know that we are talking dining and chow here, but I see similar with family travel. Many children will not travel, unless they have constant stimulation from a DVD player in the rear seats. Who cares if all of America is going by outside the vehicle's window - gotta' see "Shrek 3" for the 40th time. I then see many of these youth in dining situations, where they spend the entire evening with a cell phone in their face.
I know that my wife has many necessary business calls and text messages, and respect that. Still, I take her to a couple of places, where there is NO cell coverage. She had to find a big rock, outside our cabin, and then hold her Blackberry up in the air, to get a signal .Lovely. Now, when we hit Denver International Airport, she had over 300 voice mails and double that number of urgent text messages. She spent the next 5 hours in the RCC there, returning those, and trying to put out a half-dozen major fires. Still, I had her undivided attention for about five days! Sometimes, you have to just travel to those "dead spots," and I have been keeping a list of them - and going there, when I can steal her away.
re: Bill Hunt
Just one bone to pick with you...I still have vivid memories of traveling across country in the 70's with my family. I would have had given ANYTHING for the mindless amusement of a DVD player. Three girls in the backseat (Mooooommmm!....Jane is on MY side! Susie touched me! Mary keeps looking at me funny!) for three 12 hour days? I don't care how beautiful the landscape is, it wasn't fun AT ALL.
That said, visiting my in-laws became much more attractive when I realized that there was no cell reception at their house and in the real world, I'm a total pro at ordering for my husband while he's pacing in front of the restaurant talking on his cell phone while I drink my cocktail and draw with my son.0
re: sebetti
[Insert great big grin here!]
Now, I was a kid, who loved to see the world go by.
When we began traveling with our niece and nephews, hand-held games were the vogue. Most of them had at least one. Their dad would try to get them to watch the scenery, but met with resistance. Now, all are grown, and each has confided in us that they missed so much of America (most of these trips were in the New Mexico, Colorado, or Utah high country), and only wish they could have those trips back again. I wish that we could too.
I had a girlfriend like this. We are no longer friends. If you want to talk to your other friends so much when in my company, that tells me something about our friendship. Go be friends with them, then. When in the company of her other friends, not only did they all sit around texting others all at once, but they even texted EACH OTHER while sitting at the same table. I guess, akin to whispering about someone else? Makes me feel really old.0
Have you considered dropping her cell phone in her soup? If she didn't order any, order some for her! '-)0
re: Caroline1
I have a friend that would always be looking down in her lap ads she texted during dinner. I mentioned to my SO and other friends; next time we all go out I was bringing a coloring book and crayons!!!!!!!0
re: ospreycove
Things like that help you figure out which friends are keepers.0
re: ospreycove
I actually am less offending if the person is drawing with crayons on a coloring book. I actually had never been to Macaroni Grill until this year and I were pleasantly surprised that they provide me cayons and paper. I immediately started drawing, so was my friend.0
re: Caroline1
I like the way you think Caroline! It can happen with hand held games too. I hadn't seen my friend John in quite a while and we had lots of catching up to do, but he was too addicted to his nintendo DS pokemon game to say much to me. John is 26. And he had two DS units and kept switching them out so he could play two games at the same time. My Dinner With Andre it wasn't.0
I think that is so rude. And shows an appalling lack of manners. Gryphonskeeper, you shouldn't expect that behaviour out of teenagers either! My children KNOW that is not acceptable behaviour. There is no texting at the table either at home or out in restaurants. And they think it is rude if their friends do it.0
re: decolady
My 17-year-old "nephew" when asked if his friends texted other friends while they were out said "some of them do, and some of them have manners."0
re: Ruth Lafler
Love it!0
Rude rude rude. She is probably tweeting "Hey I am eating with two boring people."0
i agree with all the comments -- unless it's an emergency / required for your job -- it's beyond rude.
but - unless people speak up and just ask their friends to put the phone down so that they can talk to each other (rather than others) -- i think some of these people will never even know they're being rude (some, of course, will know -- and are just rude).0
re: Harters
I actually sent her a text.. I figured she was sure to get the message. I just said "I hope I am not interrupting a meal with friends, I know first hand how rude that would be"0
re: gryphonskeeper
Awesome move. Did she text you back?0
re: linguafood
It took her about 8 hours to reply, and she said "yeah I hate when people text me when I am eating"
I told her maybe she should do what I do, shut it down and wait until after she eats to check and reply.0
re: gryphonskeeper
Ok, I have to ask- why are you using such a passive-aggressive way to point out the obvious to her, especially since she obviously didn't get the point? Why not just politely ask her to focus on the present, physical company and put her phone away? I'm sorry, but I don't see the point of venting on chowhound when you forego the opportunity to actually resolve the situation. Makes no sense to me.0
re: mjhals
Mj, she is... well daft. I hate to say it but she is. I care for her as a person but she is daft. I could show her the forest, and she would miss the trees if you catch my drift.0
re: gryphonskeeper
So daft that she wouldn't understand, "Could you put that away, please?"0
What this thread is showing is that certain people have become powerless in controlling the devices that have been designed to serve them. As a youngster, my parents wouldn't answer the phone during mealtime. "If it is important, they will call back..." was their mantra.0
re: Tripeler
My parents and I am the same with that. I refuse to answer the phone during dinner, they can leave a message.0
many of these messages end up on twitter or FB telling the world where they are and what they are eating, even pics of their food.0
I think it is impolite and more importantly annoying. I have seen interviewee texting in the middle of an interviewing dinner. I will say it is still less disruptive than making a vocal phone call.0
re: Chemicalkinetics
I'm guessing that "interviewee" never made the transition to "employee".0
re: ricepad
:) No he didn't, but I should be clear that he didn't miss the offer due to that alone.
It is not deal breaker, but when all else is similar between interviewees, then less important things start to weigh in and can tilt the result. No one would say "We shoulnd't extend the offer to him because he texted during lunch" in the decision room. Instead people say things like "I am slightly concern about his communication skill and his ability to work smoothly with others".0
I have no tolerance for this. It is beyond rude.
If you have a potential emergency and need to monitor, a discrete glance at a phone set to vibrate will keep you up to date.
I was on a road trip several years ago and needed food and a rest room. The local Steak and Shake was about the only option. Seems a Friday night is teen night at this location. Filled with groups of teens, limited mingling of the sexes, but lots of looking. Then I realized that there was very little talking - they were all texting each other! Felt like I was watching a teen movie with the volume off - very strange.0
re: meatn3
I wonder what nation we are becoming. Some people text on every single little thing, like "I have reached the mall" and "I am looking at this beautiful dress" and "I am eating at Chic-Fila-A". Really? Are these really important?0
re: Chemicalkinetics
A legend in their own minds!
I am truly boggled by the whole thing. But I am also the type who has trouble understanding how a person could consider their 2,000 Facebook "friends" to really be friends.....I have a great many acquaintances, but the few I call friend really are in the deepest meaning of the word.
BTY, "I'm posting to my zillion CH friends now!"
I am truely amazed at how many people do this and even worse, think it is totally acceptable. It is incredibly rude to text while another person is talking to you or to interrupt a conversation so that you can pick up your cell phone and have a long chat with another unless, of course, it is an emergency.0
Did she even say anything? People seriously underestimate the value of an apology or "excuse me".... when they do stuff like this.
I have a good friend who does this type of thing frequently (not texting, but answering the phone0, and yes, I've said stuff to her about it. Thankfully her "pros" outweigh her "cons", so I've kept her :D0
Terribly rude! I would have announced out loud during of the middle of this (since you say you all were friends) "The Next Person Who Texts or Takes a Call Pays for everyone!" and call a vote.0
Texting is just rude when you eating. Of course talking is even worse, especially when someone walks up behind you talking loudly and startles you. I would love to have a cell phone jammer, but I think they are illegal in the US.0
re: cajundave
I ead about those thing. Imagine what would happen if you turn one of those babies on a bus or train. I bet a quarter (25%) of the passages would freak out.0
re: Chemicalkinetics
Yes it would be funny and satisfying. I read up on the jammers, they are illegal in the US and the FCC can fine you $11000 per use, although no one has ever been fined. I still want one.0
Not only do I find texting at the table rude, talking on the cell fits in with that camp as well. Far too often I see friends who are hanging out together who, instead of carrying on a conversation, are busy texting others. I often ask myself what is the purpose of spending time when your concentration is diverted to other more (apparently) important things. I grew up in a household where the family sat down to dinner every night. Telephones were not picked up during meal time.
The problem isn't the technology. The problem is how people are allowing common courtesy to be thrown out the window in favour of moments of instant gratification. Individuals allow their lives to be ruled by technology, instead of ruling it.
I miss the days when you could sit in a restaurant (or mall, or grocery store) without having a nearby diner's cellphone ring or buzz.0
why do people care about what happens at other tables if it does not bother them. If someone is sitting with a group at another table texting, jfood could not care less. If someone is speaking at the same decibel level on a cell phone to his left as the table to his right, he could not care less. when the jfoods are out with friends and someone needs to text a kid who may have a question, no big deal, that person obviously thought it was important enough to interupt the meal and if it were important they would take and text outside and that would take 3X as long.
jfood cares what occurs at his table and his group is mature enough that (a) they respect each other and would not be rude and (b) if they need to take a call or text then they rest of the group carries on until they are done and return to the flow, sorta like getting up and using the facilities.
many need to mind their own business. jfood's mother lives in FL, not at the next table.0
re: jfood
as ever the voice of reason, not rules. thank you jfood.
we live in 2010, not 1950. We have different expectations about communication. There is no such thing as a telegram. I don't remember the last time I saw a matre'd come to a table and discretely let someone know there was a phone call for them (but it used to happen... ive seen it on black and white re-run's.) What is an answering service? What was the last restaurant you were in that had even one, let alone a couple of pay phones discretely placed near the restrooms?
Good manners are determined by the group involved. If 5 or 6 of us are having dinner together to plan another function, we may well have good reason to be texting, twittering, and phoning from our table. Good manners dictate that those around us mind their own business so long as we keep our voices (and alert signals) at a reasonable level. If a bunch of young people choose to keep different standards than those of us who grew up in a different time, that is their prerogative.0
re: KaimukiMan
thanks for the kind words and agree KM.
They need to re-write the SNL skit as well with the shark (take off of Jaws) knocking on the door of the hotel room saying "telegram" to "Txt message." Most do not remember what a telegram is.0
re: ChinoWayne
so if jfood is a solo sitting to your left on a cell phone and the couple to your right are having a conversation, boith at the same decibel level you feel that you have the right to use this device? Does this encroachment also extend to other items? For example if you believe in ketchup on a hamburger and the couple to your right adds mustard and not ketchup but jfood uses ketchup, do you take your mallet and smash the burgers to your right since you disagree with what they are doing?0
re: jfood
Ketchup and mustard are condiments. Both are fairly benign with decent table manners. Tabasco and Worcestershire Sauce, however, have boisterous reputations and the potential to alarm solemn diners.
Cell phone users at restaurant bars tend to be annoying for two simple reasons:
1). Mobile technology is such that you usually have to speak well above the ambient noise level. If dining neighbors to my right were as loud I would not be happy. If the cell phone user to my left was fairly quiet, I wouldn't notice and wouldn't care.
2). Many cell phone users at restaurant bars (where I eat a lot when traveling) seem to suffer from a curious affliction that requires them to call someone for no apparent reason, speak well above the ambient noise level and, worst of all, insist on sharing the most intimate details of their pathetic little lives.
I'm not too fond of folk who use a flash when taking pictures of their dinner plate either but that's just me. I also hold children behaving badly in the same regard as adults behaving badly. I generally blame the parents, however.
just my $0.02.0
re: steve h.
which was why jfood wrote "boith (sic) at the same decibel level"
loud speaking is loud speaking, but why does speaking at the same level create such vitriol. jfood once sat between two 2-tops. to his left was a husband explaining his affair to his wife (and she had a steak knife in her hand. to his right was a newlywed with her mother explaining her new husband's failures in the bedroom. On the other side of the room is a bunch of drunks telling loud and lewd jokes. And jfood is sitting there explaining his day to mrs jfood, 500 miles away. Why is jfood the bullseye of the rage?
another couple of pennies into the pot. :-))0
re: jfood
I know. I was adding a little more background and depth to your position.
At the end of the day, boorish behavior is a primary cause of dining tension.0
re: steve h.
roger...that will be jfood at brennans on wed txting and chatting quietly. :-))0
re: jfood
It's a neighborhood bar. Nothing fancy. My kind of place.
Substitute the onion rings for the fries if you feel like it.
edited to add: you'll like the barkeep, she's good people.0
re: steve h.
what do you mean by substitute...gotta have both. received a picture and it looks like a great place for a relaxing burger.0
re: jfood
It's all a matter of appetite. Sit at the bar, chat up the barkeep, have fun. There should be a raggedy copy or two of the Post and the News somewhere. I bring a copy of the FT on occasion but they don't yell at me.
There are precious few neighborhood bars in Stamford. Brennan's is a keeper.0
re: ChinoWayne
Nope, that crap doesn't work properly. You'd better use some taiwanese jammers like http://www.jammer-store.com/ff15-worl...0
Interesting, and possibly a sign of the times. Took nephew to brunch, where he was hitting us up for a full-boat to culinary school. During most of the meal, he was busy texting. Oh well, maybe someone else will pick up the tab.
My wife is on-call, 24/7, but is very, very good with this. She might peek, below table level, but unless all heck is breaking loose, she ignores things. If they DO break loose, she excuses herself and deals with things.
Maybe because my life is simple, I am not going to take a call, or look at a text message, while dining, even in an informal setting. If I do need to take a call, it's in the lobby, the parking lot, or at the Men's Grill at the CC - never in the dining room - never!
re: Bill Hunt
re: Bill Hunt
Does Nephew know why Uncle Bill Hunt will not be participating in the funding of his schooling?0
re: ricepad
We never got around to that part of the conversation. I did not bring it up, and neither did he. However, those text messages might well have been from a benefactor, or from some culinary school placement office, so maybe all is well? At his age, I did not feel compelled to try and change his habits. After about 18, they are on their own.
Wish him well, and hope that things do work out. It could have been easier. This was going to be the second offer from us for culinary school. We even got him interviews with several local chefs, who offered their time to share with him. Then, he passed for a much more glamorous life, sans school.
re: Bill Hunt
Bill, it must be the dry Phoenix air that causes this dead-brain activity! We had something similar happen a couple of months ago and I remain stunned today. A family we did not know well called to ask for a visit, they had moved out of town and returned for a short time. We agreed and i invited them for lunch.
After some pleasantries, we were seated at table. During lunch, I noticed lags in the conversation and realized that all four of them - mom, dad, son & daughter - were texting out of sight. When I asked about it, they admitted they were texting friends and, from time to time, each other! It wasn't long after this disclosure that the father asked us for a substantial loan .................
Usually, I try to be tactful but this time I blurted out "Oh, NO! We've learned the hard way never to loan money". They left immediately after dessert, not bothering to stick around for cleanup, etc. and we have not heard a peep from them since.0
re: Sherri
"Each other?" What were they thinking? Were they not seated at the same table?
Now, my lovely and loving wife has admitted texting a co-worker at the same board table in a boring meeting, but that is her business.
Maybe it is the dry, high Sonoran Desert air?
For me, I hate to spend the time to read the wine list, and choose the wines for the evening, as it takes me out of the table conversation, and I hate missing that. It's part of the reason for being there, but maybe I am just "old-school," and out of touch?
I have also found that the best way to loose a friend is to load that friend money. I cannot recall that it has ever worked out well.
re: Bill Hunt
In college my roommate and I would instant message each other from across the room, as would many of our friends. It is all part of playing with technology. Of course, that was in a dorm room and not at the dinner table.0
I can't remember where I read it, but someone said that if it would be appropriate (time & venue) to be doing a crossword puzzle, it's appropriate to be on your cell phone/texting. I think that's an apt rule of thumb. Although maybe not for talking loudly on a cell phone on public transportation.0
re: quirkydeb
Well, I've never heard of a crossword puzzle emergency! I've probably texted at the table, but only rarely and briefly, and only because when someone texts me, it's usually something that needs to be dealt with immediately. I certainly don't -- nor would I -- indulge in extended text message exchanges, nor do I initiate them.0
re: Ruth Lafler
There are emergencies. If my cell phone rings, I know that it is one of two things: wrong number, or an emergency. I always look, and in most cases, let the wrong number go to voice mail. In the case of the other, I excuse myself and try to handle the emergency, as well as I can.
In wife's case, most evening calls ARE emergencies, and she handles them the same exact way - away from the table.
I think part of people's focus on their cellphones comes not just from addiction, but b/c the immediacy of digital input makes us unable to distinguish between what's urgent and what's important.0
yep it's rude.
I only do it with my husband and only if it's one of the kids texting me.
which has happened maybe 2 times when we were out.0
It is not unusual for me and SO to have our cell phones on the table during casual happy hours/dinners with friends. He's in healthcare and on call. I am often the organizer of social outings and receive many calls/texts of "where do we park" or "running late" or "not gonna make it" or even "order me this." These small messages let us know how many people are coming and whether we need to wait to order.
But when we are trying to have a real sit-down dinner, the phones go away. Of course, we can only do this when he's not on call.0
re: mojoeater
Right. I think there's a difference between receiving (and answering) a brief, time or occasion sensitive text (I might get one that says "how late are you going to be, should I feed the dog?"), and pulling out your phone and starting to send messages.0
re: mojoeater
I do not envy your SO, as that is the same in our house. I hate it, when your cell vibrates at dinner, 'cause I know that she's likely to be leaving instantly, or having to spend a long time on the phone, sorting things out. Trust me, I know how cruel healthcare can be. OTOH, mankind usually benefits from the efforts of those involved. Guess that in the scheme of things, it's really a small price to pay. At least wife does leave the table instantly, when those calls come in, and I then become the sole host of the table, until she can return. Usually, the guests think that the "power room" called, and never know what she was busy doing.
I feel your pain,
it's unacceptable at any age. we absolutely don't allow my nieces to even have their cell phones at the table once we sit down to eat, and i find it incredibly offensive when an adult texts or accepts a call during a meal unless it's a qualified emergency. really? are you *so* important that it can't wait for a few minutes? at the very least, if you *need* to answer it, excuse yourself for a moment and walk away from the table to do it.
on more than one occasion i've had someone reach to answer a call or text during a meal with me - knowing that it WASN'T an emergency - and told them they can either put away the phone or find another dining companion. i have no tolerance for that kind of disrespect.0
We're locking this thread.
We see a great number of threads on Not About Food that tell stories or ask questions about rude or generally unpleasant ways that people have been treated by their friends, family, restaurant staff, etc. While it can be fun or cathartic to trade stories about the worst of personal behavior, all of these threads go rapidly downhill, with some people trolling for reactions and others engaging in name calling and personal attacks.
These issues are at best tangentially related to food, are often just rants thinly disguised as questions, and rarely come to any useful conclusion, but they're generating a huge amount of ill will amongst members of the community. Given that, we're putting a moratorium on threads of this nature. We'll close the current ones if they get out of hand, and we'd ask that no one start new threads in this vein.
As we mention in http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/360953 Not About Food is really not meant to be a clearing house for everything under the sun -- it's primarily meant to be a place for us to redirect conversations that almost but don't quite fit on other boards. We're asking that everyone please think carefully before starting any threads on Not About Food, and in particular take care to avoid the type of problem threads we've outlined in this post.0


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This book is another example of why I love reading children's books. The Chiru of High Tibet by Jaqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Linda Wingerter, introduced me to an animal I knew nothing about--the chiru. Chiru are unique animals resembling antelopes, but related to wild goats and sheep. Their wool is special also and is considered to be the finest in the world. It is called shahtoosh, the king of wools. In order for this wool to be used, the animal has to be killed.
A man named George B. Schaller was very worried about the chiru and its existence. He was afraid that if something was not done to protect them, they would become extinct. So Schaller decided to do something. He wanted to protect the chiru from the hunters. In order to do that, he had to find the secret place where the female chirus gave birth. After several attempts to locate this elusive spot failed, four mountain climbers offered to help Schaller.
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Being so obsessed with photography, friends and family tend to think of me as an expert in the field. I've got the gear, they love the pictures and I live and breath the medium, so the credentials as far as they know add up. With this perceived status comes the occasional question regarding the craft from folks who are just getting into it and being that I love to geek out talking about photography, the question will be fielded with the utmost respect and interest. Let the perception become reality, even for just a moment!
Last week a friend at church asked a good one; one that tied him up with me for a good 10-20 minutes that he'll never get back for sure. He had some experience with film in the past but had been away from photography for a while. Earlier this year he purchased his first DSLR (a Canon Rebel I believe) and along with it bought a book on composition. He liked landscapes, portraits and macro. His question: "How do I get started?"
That was a first for me. Some folks say they want to learn more about their camera or ask how to take great pictures, but this question was totally different. How do you start? Where to begin? I don't think he expected me to ramble on like I did after asking the question, but I was really sort of feeling for the answer – it was not something you chalk up in the front brain shelves like, "get down low" or "add a strong foreground element." It required me going back to the beginning, filtering things forward and seeing what was left. After thinking about it a few days, I thought it would make for a great topic here at Current Photographer, so here goes.
- Read Your Camera's Manual. Everybody says this, but it is so important. Understand how to operate your camera and learn what each of the buttons and controls do so that you're not spending time searching for functions instead of getting great pictures. Will this keep you from making mistakes? Nope. You'll forget to change the ISO setting back to 100 after shooting indoors at 1600. You'll forget to change the white balance to daylight after shooting in fluorescent – those things will happen. When they do, however, you'll know exactly how to change them quickly without wasting too much time and missing more shots.
- Learn about exposure, in particularly the triangle of ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed. Cameras these days are pretty amazing at metering scenes and selecting settings to obtain a decent exposure, but they have no idea what your vision is for the picture you're taking. They can't read your mind. Understanding depth of field or how to freeze or highlight movement are creative decisions that only you can make and you can't make them if you don't know how these controls work together to produce the results.
- Shoot in RAW. We're not perfect, well, I'm not anyways, so when I load a pic up on the computer, I want the most data possible that helps me get the finished product I want. Shooting in jpeg will limit that capability.
- Look at other people's work. Don't just look at it to see if you like it or not, look at it to understand why you like it. Is there something about the style or the composition that you like, for instance, do you like the use of a strong foreground element or leading lines? What are the focal points and where are they placed in the photo? Color or black and white? Contrast, saturation? Once you start identifying these things, try applying them to your photos. Compare and experiment.
- Take pictures. Lots of pictures. Take pictures of the same subjects at different times of day, month, year. Experiment with the settings on your camera and how they effect the same image. Change your angle by getting down on the ground or standing up on something to look down at the subject. Move your feet. Keep moving your feet. Change lenses and see the differences in the focal length and angle.
- Get connected to other photographers in the social networks. Interact. Ask questions. The photography community is one of the most open ones I have ever experienced and most togs will share whatever they know to help someone else – take advantage of it!
- Experiment with all types of photography; landscapes, portraits, macro, etc. Learn which ones you like and which ones you don't. Learn what settings work for each type.
- Share your work and ask for real critiques. Don't take the award comments in Flickr seriously – find photographers you respect and ask them to look at your work and give honest critiques. Use the comments objectively – don't assume they're right just because they tell you their opinion, but consider it as a possible improvement and try it out in future shoots.
More important than any of the other tips, at least in my opinion, is to shoot what you love and shoot to please you. Most all of us who have blogs or share work online get caught up in the quantity and quality of comments we get on our images. This can move us toward taking pictures to get a response rather than taking pictures that move us individually. If you love taking pictures of your kids and taking them at high noon, take them and perfect them. If you like taking pictures of flowers, take them and perfect the craft. If your passion and love for the subject type is true, it will come out in the image and people will see it.
We can't please everybody. Trust me, we can't. So please yourself when it comes to photography. Keep it fun and keep learning about it. When we look at a great picture, we won't be able to tell what camera it was taken with or if it was in auto or manual mode. What we will be able to tell is the passion that went into it and the emotion it triggers within us.
That's where I would start if I had to do it again. These tips will go a long ways for you to produce the images that sit behind your eyes.
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Thanks for the tips Jimmy!
Great food for thought.
Great tips that cause us photographers to think more about our craft. As artists we tend to seek affirmation of our work, but shooting with passion shows itself through our artistic development and style.
Great tips here and now I have a new connection on Google+!
I had taken a long hiatus since my photojournalism degree in the 80s. I had become expert in Photoshop, but only compositing other people's images. When I finally bought a digital camera, I bought expensive professional gear that left observers with huge expectations but my results were disappointing. Learning about RAW, the differences between exposing for film and digital capture, and the ins and outs of Adobe Camera Raw helped. This list is a great resource. Often what finally looks good to you still isn't there. Networking, critique and workshops all help to make your images better.


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"If the people who brought us television had played by the same rules that today's wireless carriers impose - we'd probably all be listening to the radio," Ryan Singel claims.
The struggle between BP and the U.S. government takes place amid a much larger conflict — over whether democratic capitalism is the best political-social-economic system, writes David Brooks.
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The latest attack took place on late Saturday when a group of gunmen burst into two apartment buildings used as brothels in the Zayouna neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. The men first entered one building and opened fire with pistols fitted with silencers before carrying out a similar attack at a brothel next door.
A police source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at least 31 people, including 29 women and two men, were killed in the attack. "There was blood everywhere. Bodies of women were strewn all throughout the rooms. Some of the women tried to flee or hide from the gunmen but were shot to death," he said.
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BURLINGTON Rick Goldring has rung up gold.
And knocked off a Burlington political icon at the same time.
The 53-year-old financial adviser did what three decades of Burlington political opponents could not last night; he beat Cam Jackson to capture the city's mayoralty race.
While he ran an issues oriented campaign, the Ward 5 councillor, completing just his first term in office, took pains to lambast Jackson's autocratic style at every opportunity. It appeared to work.
Goldring captured almost 50 per cent of the vote, with Carol D'Amelio at 25% and Jackson at 22%.
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Some 100 supporters watched in stunned silence as a campaign worker posted numbers that gave Goldring an over 3,000 vote lead.
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The next eight polls were even worse. Goldring had bumped the lead to about 6,000 votes and Jackson was still treading third.
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"We need to work to take this city in a new direction and we have to get behind the new council and the new mayor," he said.
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"My legacy is the thousands of people I have helped and I have tried to help. I have a room full of people who never forgot that. That's not the reason I did it. I wanted to be a political servant all my life," he said.
Jackson said the mayor's office offers a real distinction.
"It can be a place that makes things happen or a place that you hear the last excuses for what can't be done," he said, praising his staff.
Jackson, who was flanked by his mother, wife Elaine and three daughters, thanked them last.
"I can be very tenacious in my efforts when I feel something is wrong and needs to be righted. The price you pay for that is not your health but your relationship with your family.
"I guess you're going to have daddy at home a lot more often and I couldn't be happier," he said.
Afterwards a more taciturn Jackson addressed the media.
"It's hard to say," when asked why the vote count turned out.
Jackson said he will look at staying involved in the community.
Goldring will lead a Burlington council that features three new faces At press time the rest of council shaped up this way. Incumbents Jack Dennison, Rick Craven and John Taylor are all set to return. Blair Lancaster was elected in Ward 6, Paul Sharman and Marianne Meed Ward were victorious in Wards 5 and 2, respectively.
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Goldring also appeared to be the beneficiary of a Shape Burlington report on civic engagement.
The citizen's committee report was critical of the way city council conducted business and led to suggest council had become dysfunctional.
Jackson ran a low-key campaign focused on fiscal responsibility.
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The Ladykillers (1955) (Blu-ray)
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Theres little to usefully add to the description here after watching the film again, other than to say that you also get a good scene where a young Frankie Howerd, playing a barrow boy, interacts with a cart horse intent on eating his fruit and veg, Mrs Wilberforce trying to stop him chastising the said horse and Mrs Wilberforces umbrella with which she attempts to chastise Frankie Howard. Jack Warner (Dixon of Dock Green) plays the man in charge of the police station.
Its one of the best ever British comedies which also features quite a few 1950s railway scenes of steam engines, including inside what appears to be Kings Cross station, which is a bonus for railway enthusiasts like me. In one scene you also see that theres a railway track within a couple of feet of what is presumably the back of Mrs Wilberforces house. Only a wooden fence separates it from the house wall.
At the end of the street where her house is, you can see what seems to be (though it is somewhat blurred) an LNER sign (London and North Eastern Railway prior to the formation of British Railways in 1948), again suggesting Kings Cross station (which the locomotives, carriages, lines and tunnels in other scenes confirm it is meant to be, Copenhagen tunnel being specifically featured. If it was indeed LNER on the sign and looking down a real street one wonders why, as the film was shot in 1955, well into British Railways days.
A must for all comedy and railway buffs.
Power of the A1s
Posted: 23/09/2012
Published in 2000 by the OPC and apparently not reprinted since (which is to me a bit of a surprise) this is an excellent pictorial record of the whole Peppercorn A1 class (plus Great Northern) with so much information given in the main caption for each class member (1 date built 2 shed allocations 3 dates of livery changes 4 dates of withdrawal 5 place of disposal) that it virtually becomes a reference book, especially perhaps for the modeller.
My only minor criticism as with all the books in the Power series, is that, other than on the dust jacket, there are no colour photographs.
Power of the A2s
Posted: 06/09/2012
This is certainly a 5* rated book. My only minor criticism is the lack of colour photographs (apart from those on the cover).
The layout is superb, dealing with each class member in chronological order as numbered by British Railways, with several photographs of each class member showing different liveries and forms such as single and double chimneys plus brief details of each member such as date of entry into service, shed allocations, date of withdrawal and date and place where scrapped.
An added and unexpected bonus is the first chapter covering each of the P2 2-8-2s in a similar manner, giving the dates rebuilt as A2s (and dates streamlined in the case of 2001 and 2002) and photographs.
Buy it before it goes out of print and commands silly prices for a second-hand copy.
L.A. Woman: 40th Anniversary Edition (2CD)
The Doors - CD
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Firstly apologies for lack of punctuation as no apostrophes, inverted commas etc are allowed in Play reviews.No this one is not just another reissue of the well known album but also one for the discerning Doors fans and collectors, the 2 CD triple fold out set featuring as it does, alongside the original album, different versions of 7 of the 10 tunes (exceptions being Hyacinth House (unfortunately as it is a beautiful song), LAmerica and Crawling King Snake). There is also the image of Morrison crucified on a telegraph pole included with the early original vinyl issue on a poster and on the inner sleeve.They were all recorded in The Doors Workshop at the time of the LA Woman sessions (hence the title of the double vinyl edition, The Workshop Sessions (which features only the alternate versions but does not appear to be widely available at present). The quality of the alternative versions is, as one would expect, excellent of course and I am surprised that they have never appeared before though thats probably down to the cynical record company penchant for making maximum money off old material (not that I am a cynic myself, you understand).Enough has been said about the original album so I will concentrate here on the alternative versions. I have not actually compared them to the originals, merely listened to the unreleased ones and said what comes to mind, but I can say with certainty that most of the alternate versions are less polished than those used on the album and, indeed, sound at times like demos rather than alternate takes. One does in fact mention the take number which probably means that none of them are actually demos. Studio chat features too.The Changeling, which Jim tells the band is his favourite number, is longer at nearly 5 minutes and powers along at around the same speed as the album version but with a different keyboard riff. It is, perhaps, more powerful and certainly bluesier with more raucous lead guitar. A few bum notes slip in but do not spoil the song overall.Love Her Madly features a lazier Morrison vocal with different lyrics and a totally different keyboard section in the middle.Been Down So Long is probably the least different alternative, much the same as the album version apart from being a bit rougher and longer.The slow, dirty, blues of Cars Hiss by My Window seems to feature somewhat more prominent guitar than the LP version and is 30 seconds longer.LA Woman meanwhile features different lead guitar riffs and a weird bit of extra vocalising brings it to a sudden end at 8.45.The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) features different lyrics and is 1.20 longer than the album version but this comprises a cacophony of jazzy guitar and drums with no discernible tune. Theres an instrumental version thrown in too.Clocking in at 2 minutes longer than the original, Riders on the Storm could have been the jewel in the crown here, were it not for the fact that the extra time at the start is occupied by a throw away Morrison ditty, false start and chat plus a somewhat flat vocal from Morrison, especially evident at the start of the tune proper.Finally music wise you get the addition of an actual unreleased song, She Smells so Nice, which morphs into Rock Me, but they are pretty much of filler or single B side standard and it is no wonder they were not used on the LA Woman album proper or anywhere else.The 3 way fold out card sleeve packaging features, in addition to the original album artwork, 3 photos from the LA Woman sessions and a replica of the striking poster and inner bag image of a naked Morrison crucified on a telegraph pole that came with early copies of the original vinyl LP (referred to here as Electric Woman).
Moon Blood
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Attention all heavy rock fans. This album, Moon Blood, by Fraction, was originally issued as a private pressing of 200 vinyl copies in 1971 (that now sell in very good nick for over 1000 GBP each, which is vastly overpriced of course thanks to a few idiots and ebay).
It is now freely available thanks to a recent (2010) vinyl and CD reissue so get it while you can (the vinyl all seems to have gone so is only available second hand).
The best tracks in my opinion are (and this is very subjective, depending as it does largely on taste) Eye of the Hurricane, This Bird and Prisms (a bonus track, not on the CD), the latter particularly featuring some awesome fuzz guitar and other epic riffage, whilst This Bird is more of a slow bluesy tune, still featuring some great guitar work with a heavy blues riff and a bit of spoken word, the vocals here sounding a little like Jim Morrison.
The poorest track, meanwhile, is the ponderous, largely acoustic Dawning Light which does not suit the bands otherwise rock style at all. It may not be too bad by other bands standards but certainly does not belong on this album.
Intercessors Blues (another bonus track), whilst not poor, fails to do much for me, apart from the Jim Morrison-style vocals which are a bit of a novelty.
Talking of Morrison, the lead vocalist, Jim Beach, has been compared to the former Lizard King but this is only apparent on odd tracks and to say, as someone apparently did in the distant past, that this was the album that The Doors wished they had made is just utter rubbish.
I feel rather hacked off that the bonus tracks appear to be only available as downloads but thats modern life I suppose.
Despite my criticisms, overall this is an excellent find and a must for the discerning 1970s heavy rock fan.
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This is almost a killer compilation from the Sookie Sookie man, King Floyd. Based on this evidence it seems hard to believe that after the mid-1970s the guy couldnt get a label to sign him. Here in GB at least he must be one of the undiscovered or at least forgotton classic soul men.
The total stand-out track in my opinion is of course the 1970 US multi-million selling single Groove Me - one of the few soul singles that I bought at the time. Here it deservedly has pride of place as the introductory track on the album. Reportedly written by Floyd 5 years earlier, it was recorded in one take and originally intended as the B-side of the inferior What Our Love Needs (also here on the album) but ultimately flipped to the A-side after proving the popular tune on an early promo taken to a party by a DJ. I have rarely heard a song that requires only one listen to register in a big way like this. It is a superb soul classic, ranking alongside Clean Up Woman, Mr Big Stuff and Dock of the Bay (a magic cover of which is also featured here) and worth the CD price itself.The other tracks, though never quite matching the brilliance of Groove Me, are mainly pretty neat soul/funk tunes, several, like Groove Me, written by Floyd himself, with only a couple of tunes spoiled with unnecessary strings. Theres one funky track that nods in the direction of disco (unfortunately) and one reminiscent of The Temptations psychedelic era (a good thing to a psych fan like me of course) and the compilation is only really let down by a couple of filler-quality tracks.
Theres rather a lot of hiss and a few crackles present on the odd track, which usually means that the master tapes for the it have been lost and its mastered from a vinyl record but, hey, better have it than not for all that. They should really warn you about this in the notes and, though they dont in this case, its only a minor gripe and doesnt detract from the overall quality of the sound.
Unfortunately Floyd died on 6/3/06, a great loss to us all including predominantly rock fans like myself, not only soul fans, so theres no chance of a new album but where is that album or box including the elusive out-takes and unreleased material? Surely on this evidence there must be at least one LPs worth of decent unreleased stuff in the vaults?
Love Lost
Love - CD
Posted: 22/10/2011
If you want the extra 5 tracks namely 1 C.F.I. 2 He Knows a Lot of Good Women (alternative) 3 Find Somebody (alternative) 4 Midnight Sun (alternative) and 5 Product of the Times (alternative) you must buy the double vinyl LP issue.
Anyway what you get here on the CD is the Arthur Lee and Love Columbia 1971 sessions, several tracks from which Arthur Lee would later re-record for his second solo outing 1972's Vindicator. These are: 1 Sad Song; 2 Everybody's Gotta Live; 3 He Knows a Lot of Good Women; 4 Love Jumped Through my Window; 5 He Said She Said; and 6 Find Somebody. They are all truly excellent. In fact it's a little like an alternative Vindicator album. If you like the Vindicator album (Lee's Hendrix tribute) then you must own this too along with the expanded Vindicator CD. You will love it.
Languishing in the vaults for nearly 40 years the basic tracks were to have formed an album called Dear You. The lineup is: 1 Arthur Lee lead vocals; 2 Craig Tarwater lead guitar; 3 Don Poncher drums; and 4 Frank Fayad bass, although some tracks are acoustic demos with just Lee and his acoustic guitar. These are: 1 Love Jumped Through my Window; 2 He Said She Said; 3 Sad Song; 4 Good and Evil; and 5 For a Day. Add on amongst others: 1 a Hendrix cover, Ezy Rider; 2 a studio version of Product of the Times, from the album Studio Live; 3 the funky Trippin and Slippin; plus soul ballads 4 Looking Glass; and 5 Can't Find It. All together there are 14 superb tracks. My personal favourite is Everybody's Gotta Live which I also have on an Arthur Lee vinyl EP but that's a very subjective choice and the favourite selection is all yours.
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Tony Joe White - CD
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A new album from Tony Joe White is always an event in my book, even if it is yet another live one which has not exactly got the significance of a new studio affair.
This 2008 concert features a 3 piece with Tony Joe on guitar and vocals, Jeff Hale on drums and Tyson Rogers on keyboards. The lineup nevertheless creates a full, rich and funky sound and of course you get to see it as well as hear it (the DVD being the way to go if possible, CD and DVD track listing stated as being the same).
It all starts, however, in a rather muted, low key mood with the slightly mediocre and slow Rich Woman Blues from the 1991 LP The Beginning, followed by the slightly faster Stockholm Blues from the 1970 LP Tony Joe, again a tad mediocre (as indeed is the studio original). To be honest, after these tracks I was beginning to feel a little disappointed with the show.
I need not have worried, however, as things pick up with the slightly more swampy feel of As the Crow Flies from the 1972 LP The Train Im On. Things slow down again, however, with Crack the Window Baby from the 1998 LP One Hot July, followed by the slow and bluesy Youre Gonna Look Good in Blues from the 1991 LP Closer to the Truth.
Things finally really hot up when Tony Joe slips into the path of a decent groove with a lengthy version of Roosevelt & Ira Lee from 1969s Continued LP, taken in the first half considerably slower than the original but remaining just as good nevertheless. This is followed by The Guitar Dont Lie from Album 95 and then one that I always disliked the title of, it seeming a little trite and silly, Feeling Snakey.
The concert then moves into two old classics, Rainy Night in Georgia (which he wrote of course, to be covered by all and sundry) and the late 60s single Polk Salad Annie, again in a superb extended form, to end with Steamy Windows, another from his Closer to the Truth LP, which he wrote for Tina Turner to perform a superb cover of to help bring her back into the big time.
A live album is never the place to start for the casual fan and this is no exception. It should be filed under very good but for Tony Joe White completists and those fans who dont already have one of his concerts on DVD.
Finally, though it is brilliant value for a CD and DVD, my copies only have 11 tracks, not including Do You Have a Garter Belt which is listed here.
Electric Wizard (Digipack)
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I totally agree with the earlier review - this is an album of slow, rumbling stoner songs with intelligible vocals. Lots of buzzing guitar and some nice wah wah add to the effect to give a complete stoner experience.
Black Masses
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Were doomed I tell ye, doomed! By doom metal that is.
Do you like early Black Sabbath, especially the first two albums? Do you also like contemporary psych such as The Warlocks? Finally, do you like what used to be known as heavy metal?
If the answer to any of these questions is YES then you will probably love this band and album. If the answer to any 2 questions is YES then you will love them. If the answer to all 3 questions is YES then you will probably have this album already. If not then buy it to see exactly what you are missing.
There are only eight tracks (spread over a double vinyl album or single CD) only one of which is under 6 minutes (and then only just), all being slow and what non-genre fans would consider ponderous, with lots of wah-wah, fuzz and distortion, thus making for a very satisfying heavy psychedelic experience indeed.


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