Everest Temple at night

Ah...

I thought you guys were referring to me:

Nerdius Disneyus

Maybe it was a filter to keep the geeks from following you around the teme parks. "Whaddya taking a picture of" "Is that Mickey" "Can you take a picture of me in front of that ride?"

 

Actually, I recently found specialized postcard printer paper, that is blank postcards intended to be run through printers, I think I even found a variant meant for laser printers (which is what I now have).

It's sort of given me an excuse to send postcards.. this time as a way to show off my photography. Not just Disney either.. I have a whole range of shots that'd make great joke images, like a giraffe with its tongue up its nose, or a shot of three bison side by side, only from behind (I dunno, they like showing me their hind ends, so I'll take pictures of them). That'd make a great joke vacation card.. put the text "thinking of you" on the opposite side, and send it to a friend with a robust sense of humor.


I really don't get people saying anything odd to me at Disney World though. Except the one time on the safari ride, when I was dubbed Mr Telephoto. A badge I'd wear proudly had I been using something longer than only 200mm, point and shoots with much smaller lenses can manage that much. Had I been wielding the 600mm F4 (in my dreams) then I'd have had a t-shirt printed up that said Mr Telephoto.

 

Dose that work? Does a bigger lens help?

Man, I am going to have to start carrying my camera around with me everywhere!

 

No, it doesn't work. Well.. so long as you don't count the very nice leopard keeper who went out of her way to inform me that she was going to be moving the leopards that I'd been photographing off exhibit. If my life had been a terribly cheesy romantic comedy then in that awkward moment where she was still hanging around after she'd told me that I was about to lose my very cooperative subjects I would have hit her with an overly cliched pickup line, she'd have scoffed but I would have won her through in the end with a clumsy but heartfelt appeal.

It's probably for the best that life doesn't work that way. I would probably have to be played by.. Adam Sandler or Hugh Grant.. or, heaven, forbid, Will Farrel.. And with the limited imagination in Hollywood these days we'd probably break up, only to be brought together in the final climactic scene when some animals break out of their cages and I save her from a tiger or something.


Anyway, a bigger lens may be counter productive. It might appear to be an attempt to compensate for deficiencies in other areas. Not everyone understands the optics required to get up close to distant subjects.