Here's a primer for those of you from the sunnier climes, who may not be familiar with the nuts and bolts of the group activity known as "tobogganing".
First, everyone piles on the sleds: http://tinyurl.com/2p767e http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/R3zlnY8j2rI/AAAAAAAABOQ/gvdqgtgiOvU/s1600-h/jan_3_08+004.jpg Make sure everyone's on, make sure all the various sleds in the "train" are together: http://tinyurl.com/325ekh http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/R3zlmY8j2pI/AAAAAAAABOA/U-QGsYq-9R8/s1600-h/jan_3_08+001.jpg Down the hill for about 10 seconds of ecstacy (and possible pain - if there's a difference): http://tinyurl.com/37hb2l http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/R3zlmY8j2qI/AAAAAAAABOI/AgvCBtufpIc/s1600-h/jan_3_08+003.jpg Up the hill to start all over again (and again, and again): http://tinyurl.com/2putzl http://bp0.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/R3zlo48j2sI/AAAAAAAABOY/tbSsuN-sYL0/s1600-h/jan_3_08+005.jpg I think the only shot I'm missing to make this a really good essay is the inevitable pile-up of bodies at the bottom of the hill. I've got a few possibilities from what I shot, but I'd have to do considerable work to make them viewable, and the ones I did work on just didn't make the cut. We'll just have to be happy with these ones for now. ;-) As always, my ongoing frustration with shots looking much better (more dark detail) in PS on my laptop than I see on my monitor at work. Still, hopefully you get the gist of all this. It occurs to me that doing this on film would have been a costly and onerous endeavour (shot upwards of 80 or 100 shots that day all told, between sledding and "winter wonderland" stuff). Comments always welcome. Thanks in advance. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
