The Best Photo I Didn't Take
May 16, 2012 10:14:49 #
planepics wrote:
I mentioned this Rodney Dangerfield moment on anot... (show quote)
I've seen a picture like that circulating the internet except it's an opossum not a raccoon. Supposedly taken in Arizona.
May 16, 2012 13:45:31 #
twindad wrote:
A couple of years ago I was heading south from Chi... (show quote)
The one that still burns me is the NM landscape I wanted to shoot, I had a camera with me but we we running later than expected and my first wife talked me out of stopping. She was pretty, but so was that landscape. Now my current wife is more forgiving and understanding about my photo passions, she's a keeper.
May 16, 2012 13:53:03 #
I usually don't take my Sony out on the boat when we are going to fish( I lost one that way )and one day a about 6 dolphins became amused with our pontoon boat and spent 1/2 hour circling , jumping and really goofing around our boat. They were so close and so curious , I just get ill at the thought of what great shots I would have had of my sweet friends. I now have a water proof Olympus that I always take with me !!!!
May 16, 2012 14:12:28 #
2 Dog Don wrote:
I have wanted to take pictures of longhorn cattle. Was visiting family in TN and was told a farm just down the road had a heard of them. Got caught up in a movie and forgot about it. Had to leave next morning before light! Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
want to see Longhorns? Drive to Fort Worth, Texas, downtown...arrive before 4:00pm and you will catch longhorns being driven by real cowpokes through the streets. Weekdays only, I think. But you could do a search for fort worth attractions.
Take a look at a shot I got:
Longhorn
May 16, 2012 14:14:39 #
Best Shot I didn't get was back in the mid-60s, stationed at Cubi Point, Philippines. With a setting sun and a backdrop of ocean, the mountains, and the beautiful Subic Bay, a huge waterspout dangled into the bay. I didn't get that shot because I wasn't interested in cameras yet. Should have been, now I carry mine wherever I go, hoping for more serendipity to happen.
May 16, 2012 14:22:14 #
The picture I didn't take because I left my camera home. While on a walk I saw robins bird-bathing in a puddle on the street.
May 16, 2012 14:30:37 #
Wildspirit wrote:
Best Shot I didn't get was back in the mid-60s, stationed at Cubi Point, Philippines. With a setting sun and a backdrop of ocean, the mountains, and the beautiful Subic Bay, a huge waterspout dangled into the bay. I didn't get that shot because I wasn't interested in cameras yet. Should have been, now I carry mine wherever I go, hoping for more serendipity to happen.
When you said you were stationed at Cubi Point I thought you were going to say something about a bar girl and a stack of coins.
May 16, 2012 14:40:40 #
My wife and I were driving along a two lane Texas road, when we saw a vulture cleaning up roadkill up ahead. Not an unusual sight. As we approached he flew up onto one of those Texas ranch overhead name signs...you've seen them...to join his three compadres. Four vultures on a Texas ranch entrance sign...I think that might have made the cover of Texas Monthly!!
May 16, 2012 15:26:00 #
SteveR wrote:
My wife and I were driving along a two lane Texas road, when we saw a vulture cleaning up roadkill up ahead. Not an unusual sight. As we approached he flew up onto one of those Texas ranch overhead name signs...you've seen them...to join his three compadres. Four vultures on a Texas ranch entrance sign...I think that might have made the cover of Texas Monthly!!
Years ago we were on our way to Mo. and we went by this field that had an outhouse right in the middle of the field of sheep. Standing in front of the outhouse door was a sheep like he was waiting to be next. Never saw it again, someone had removed the outhouse. I still laugh and get hacked off at the same time when I rermember that. LOL
May 16, 2012 15:27:59 #
Libbysal wrote:
I usually don't take my Sony out on the boat when we are going to fish( I lost one that way )and one day a about 6 dolphins became amused with our pontoon boat and spent 1/2 hour circling , jumping and really goofing around our boat. They were so close and so curious , I just get ill at the thought of what great shots I would have had of my sweet friends. I now have a water proof Olympus that I always take with me !!!!
I have a picture of about 1/3 to 1/2 a dolphin taken when I was visiting my parents in Florida in Feb for her birthday. The darn things surfaced so quickly that it was impossible to time a shot!
May 16, 2012 16:23:22 #
Wildspirit wrote:
quote=2 Dog Don I have wanted to take pictures of... (show quote)
Well in Memphis it is illegal to heard cattle on Main Street after noon!
May 16, 2012 16:30:42 #
jkm757 wrote:
quote=Wildspirit Best Shot I didn't get was back ... (show quote)
Did yours make exact change too? God, what a small world!
May 16, 2012 16:33:14 #
2 Dog Don wrote:
quote=Wildspirit quote=2 Dog Don I have wanted t... (show quote)
What, a Tennesseean doesn't get up early? Maybe they herd them before noon then. (I lived in Millington for ten years)...
May 16, 2012 16:55:51 #
Wildspirit wrote:
quote=jkm757 quote=Wildspirit Best Shot I didn't... (show quote)
It got smaller when they closed the bases there. An E6 I was stationed with used to refer to the P.I. as Disneyland for the sailors
May 16, 2012 17:00:48 #
The shots that got away - after they were processed:
I actually got at least a roll of 36 good shots of a police "SWAT" team taking on a situation where a sniper (drunk and strung out it was later determined) had taken some pot shots at pedestrians early in the morning. One suffered a minor injury- arm I think. This happened in the 70's and such things were rare then, at least southern Ontario. I grabbed my Pentax Spotmatic F and gear and went to where the incident was, a block from my apartment. I was in my early 20's and did not know that I could not do certain things. Like cross police lines. I still don't know why I was allowed to wander and get close to the building when others were not. (Either the police didn't like me, or assumed my semi-professional looking gear meant I was a pro and knew the risks?) There was a large old house, split into apartments. Most tenants were evacuated early on, while the police played a waiting game with the shooter, in the top, 3rd floor apartment, who was not responding to the bullhorn or phone calls. I was near the door of the front of the building when a slightly built, bewildered man in his thirties and in his pyjamas, walked out the door to the front lawn, to be pounced on by a 200 pound cop- (relatively )gently though. It was a protective pounce- I think. It turned out that this man was deaf, had slept through the entire shooting, sirens and crowd outside, then wandered out to see what the fuss was!
Hours later the police, frustrated by the lack of resposne from the sniper, attacked the apartment inside and out (from a fire escape) with tear gas canisters. Shortly after that, the canisters set fire to the apartment, and the third and second floors of the house burned down. The police were able to - am a bit fuzzy on timing so many years later- determine the shooter had killed himself hours earlier, explaining the lack of communication with him.
Since I'd told my employer -the public library - that I could not get to work because the streets were shut down (initially true) and because the film and processing was paid for by my employer, I turned the photos and negatives over to the historian at the library. A few years later I asked for the negatives to amke copies for myself.
They had been lost.
I actually got at least a roll of 36 good shots of a police "SWAT" team taking on a situation where a sniper (drunk and strung out it was later determined) had taken some pot shots at pedestrians early in the morning. One suffered a minor injury- arm I think. This happened in the 70's and such things were rare then, at least southern Ontario. I grabbed my Pentax Spotmatic F and gear and went to where the incident was, a block from my apartment. I was in my early 20's and did not know that I could not do certain things. Like cross police lines. I still don't know why I was allowed to wander and get close to the building when others were not. (Either the police didn't like me, or assumed my semi-professional looking gear meant I was a pro and knew the risks?) There was a large old house, split into apartments. Most tenants were evacuated early on, while the police played a waiting game with the shooter, in the top, 3rd floor apartment, who was not responding to the bullhorn or phone calls. I was near the door of the front of the building when a slightly built, bewildered man in his thirties and in his pyjamas, walked out the door to the front lawn, to be pounced on by a 200 pound cop- (relatively )gently though. It was a protective pounce- I think. It turned out that this man was deaf, had slept through the entire shooting, sirens and crowd outside, then wandered out to see what the fuss was!
Hours later the police, frustrated by the lack of resposne from the sniper, attacked the apartment inside and out (from a fire escape) with tear gas canisters. Shortly after that, the canisters set fire to the apartment, and the third and second floors of the house burned down. The police were able to - am a bit fuzzy on timing so many years later- determine the shooter had killed himself hours earlier, explaining the lack of communication with him.
Since I'd told my employer -the public library - that I could not get to work because the streets were shut down (initially true) and because the film and processing was paid for by my employer, I turned the photos and negatives over to the historian at the library. A few years later I asked for the negatives to amke copies for myself.
They had been lost.
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