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The Moon Hates Me
Posted by John in General, Photography on June 30, 2009
All right, I’m calling this my first post specifically on photography. Here in Germany, we were all driving around just watching things go by. I saw both the moon and the last beams of sunset, and they both stuck out to me. This led me to two different topics that I just want to get others opinions on. These are things that I feel as a photographer are two of the most infuriating things that can happen.
1. You see the picture you want to take. It’s right in front of you. The angle is perfect, the light is perfect. Everything is perfect.
Well, mostly. You’re about five minutes late. You saw the shot five minutes ago. And now it’s gone forever. This is what happened with the sunset. As we were going up a hill, I saw these great clouds positioned just so, with the light from the dimming sun a nice pink-red. I made a comment about how that sunset was probably great. I was given the offer to stop at the top of a hill and take a picture of it. After some thought, I declined. The sun was already beyond the horizon. If we had been there about five minutes earlier, the light would have been spectacular. But now it’s just a shadow of a great photo that was missed.
2. There are things that will continue to conspire against your photography. And I’m fairly certain it’s on purpose. After the sun had gone down completely, I went for my second target: the moon. I have never had any success with shooting the moon. I have used camera after camera to get a picture, with no proof of my labor but some white disk and a very blurred picture. Tonight I tried again. As I set up this photo, the clouds began to move around the moon in a very impressive pattern. They swirled around, creating a very eerie picture. But it was too dark. I couldn’t even see the clouds. And that’s assuming that the moon didn’t blur. Then, as I prepared the camera for one last chance, the moon never showed itself long enough, hiding on the other side of the car. We even did a full circle in a fairly open area, and I never saw the cursed thing! And I think that I might have acually succeeded that time.
Those are my two rants. Does anyone else have anything to add about this? I know I’m not the only one who tries to take futile pictures of the moon. Seriously, the moon hates me.
I am Changing my Name to Daimler!
Posted by John in General, Germany, Photography on June 30, 2009
Today we went to school for a bit, which meant waking up at hours very similar to Seminary. After two periods, us Americans left school and headed out for Stuttgart, home of Daimler and Mercedes. We took a bus to the train, then took the train all the way there. There are plenty of signs leading the way, however I sadly took no pictures of those.
We arrived, we checked in our bags, and split up into two groups for going up the elevators. As Danyelle is my partner, we wandered around together. We aer both big into Photography, so we spent our time ‘competing’ to see who could get the best pictures of the cars. We decided that we were fairly equal, but her LCD screen is way worse. Either that or the camera.
I learned a lot here, besides taking pictures of cards is harder than it looks in a museum. For example, the first Merceders car was sold to some rich guy. They didn’t know what to call the car, so he told them to name it after his daughter, Mercedes. And so a legacy was born!
Near the end of the exhibits, Danyelle’s camera was dying, so we decided to push on a bit faster. However, we both stopped for a long time in the racing section to see if we could snap the perfect shot of the race cars going around the track. With Danyelle’s help, I managed to get one we both felt was really good.
After the museum, we went to some point in Stuttgart where we could buy food. Danyelle and I were walking around, until we found a stand where they were selling many baked goods. She bought a sandwich, and waited for me as I bought a Brezel (Pretzel) and a Sprite. While I was waiting for my order, Danyelle was pulling on the handle of my backpack, mocking impatience. An old woman was standing next to me, and while I didn’t understand everything she said, we both got the impression that she thought we were boyfriend/girlfriend.
We left to head back to Nagold, and then went our separate ways. I spent some time reading (almost finished Ender in Exile), uploading pictures, and making a blog post. There are rumors that Sandra and I will be joining Madelaine and Amanda later tonight to go driving around Nagold for the fun of it, listening to music and such, but we were supposed to leave 40 minutes ago. Guess that plan didn’t go as well as it could have. But all in all, I’m having a great time!
Oh, and like I said above, I’ve uploaded some new pictures. About 10 of them. If you’re interested, head over to the Gallery and go to the second level of pictures (the first one is general photography).
Germany pictures up
Posted by John in General, Germany, Photography on June 27, 2009
I’ve uploaded six pictures from Germany, covering some of the things from the last two days. I will be editing the appropriate posts to include them, as well as posting them here. From now on I will try to post pictures with the regular blogs.
~John
Image Gallery is Go!
Posted by John in General, Photography on May 29, 2009
I’ve gotten the image gallery working. The pictures currently in it are a bit… big. Not web-friendly at all. I’ll be putting them up edited down to a more reasonable size for the internet soon, I just wanted to make sure it was working. So go ahead and enjoy them, and hopefully more and better ones in the future.
~John
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