From: "Gregory Fraser" <Gregory.Fraser@pwgsc.gc.ca> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:14 AM Subject: RE: introduction > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Blackwell [mailto:av8r@cobweb.net] > > > > Well after lurking for a while I thought I would take the > > time to introduce > > myself. > > Welcome to the list Mark. > > > I got the opportunity to blend > > two of the > > things I like to do most. Fly and take pictures and started > > working with > > aerial photography. > > If you've been lurking long enough you already know that at least one of our > members likes to drive a car and take pictures. I suppose he's more likely > to hit something but on the other hand you're probably more likely to hit > something at a very high rate of speed so I'd say you win the danger factor. > > > About to start a > > project called > > out my backdoor. It will be a series of nature type shots > > made entirely on > > the 1.7 acres we just bought in a relatively short period of > > time. > > Do you mean you were driving around, saw the property, pulled into the > driveway, grabbed a handful of cash from the trunk and handed it to the > driver in exchange for the deed? Or do you mean you plan to complete the > project in a weeks time? Well either way, welcome to the list. Its good to > see someone joining instead of clawing at the walls trying to get out (and > then begging to be harassed by repeatedly having her email auto-responder > provide the list with her cell phone number). > > Greg Greg Im a confirmed chicken. I know the risks I accept and how to deal with them. I also have another pilot in the airplane when I am a photograher. grin. Yet for those that don't it can be very dangerous and people are killed in that line of work. I know that and understand ways to help prevent it. Yet it does give some very different perspectives.
