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Major disaster upon disaster and I REALLY NEED HELP!!!
16 years ago
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About a month and a half ago the engine overheated on the van and before I could do squat, the block broke. Unreal! New engine? Shit, I can't afford that, period. Try dealing with eight hundred bucks when you live on six hundred a month! Impossible! In any case, me mum stepped in and gave me the help I needed to get the van back on the road. Of course you simply cannot live in the country without transport, never mind do photography.
Two weeks ago my system became rather unstable. Couldn't reinstall XP without blue screen and major error, kernel errors cropping up at random, full mem dump etc etc. Swapping ram about did nothing, and then when I was just tilting it back up to put the case back on, huge sparks out of the power supply. So, replaced power supply (I'm in town now) and still the same so, either chip, board, or both. It's in the shop. *SIGH*
Now the worst. *BIG SIGH* *Cig break* Ok, so I'm coming back from photographing the gulls/terns at the locks. As we pull into the driveway there's a rabbit, and naturally Gracie goes crazy ape-shit bonkers. I say there there, of course I'll let you out, go nuts. As she squirms past me in her haste to get out, she snags the camera strap around her neck and legs, and tears down the driveway with the camera bouncing behind her. I retrieve the camera and breath a mighty sigh of relief when i find there's only a bit of grit that can be worked out in the 70-210mm lens.
A week later or so, on the 24'th, I'm out at Hilbre beach at 5:00 am to catch the sunrise and hopefully some hot wet beaver action (haven't seen them this year). I pull out the Meade, balance it on my shoulder, head for the beach, and trip. I fall to protect the Meade but the camera slung over my shoulder takes a hit. Still ok though so I proceed as usual. I should note that with my hip joints dead I have very limited range of motion with them, turning is an absolute NO NO period, and I couldn't stand with my legs say, two feet apart. Basically I walk like a geisha, seriously. I also gobble T3's like Smarties and have maybe half an hour, maybe an hour before my legs and hips just won't support me anymore, they just say no. So in other words I do actually hurt myself a fair bit just to take them, and I use my limited amount of standing up and moving to take them rather than something else like say, clean up this place! ;) So when I tripped there I knew I was going down, I can't move my legs far enough or fast enough to prevent a fall. Consider this, and then consider I take a lot of pictures while standing in mud, or water, or on a clutter of stones that are um... hard as rock.
I usually sleep during the day when sunrise and sunset are so close together, it barely gets dark up here. I'm up that evening getting ready for just a wee jaunt so's the Gracie won't kill me with voodoo puppy eyes. I pick up the camera, and the zoom lens slides apart into two pieces, the barrel drops on the ground.
It's my main workhorse, even for close-up work like that Untitled pic I just posted. Wade in with the boots, disturb scene, ripples etc etc, just to hit it with the 28mm, or hit it with the 210mm while standing on shore. And outdoors means distance! 70mm is not in the running, not even close. Without this lens or something like it, I'm fucked, out of business.
With all that me mum has done for me how much more can I ask? She's not exactly swimming in it and already as I've said, helps with so much. So I'm asking you now, please, if my pictures have brought you five dollars worth of pleasure, please please drop em in the hat! I'm so acutely aware of the turn of the seasons, the missed opportunities as the moon whirls around, only three days in the summer where the full moon is setting right as the sun is rising for instance.
My mom's PayPal address is wilna@dehls.net Please help me get back in business. It's the morning of the 3'rd of July and I have $20 in the bank, a few bills in my pocket for the month. I hate asking for help but at this point I've no choice. What I can do is this, anyone who can make a donation of any sort, I'll gladly send you the full files for almost any pictures you'd like. I say almost only because there's a very select few, very few, that are just a bit too personal for me to share that way, but I doubt if these pictures would be your pics anyways.
Thanks
Atomicat
Two weeks ago my system became rather unstable. Couldn't reinstall XP without blue screen and major error, kernel errors cropping up at random, full mem dump etc etc. Swapping ram about did nothing, and then when I was just tilting it back up to put the case back on, huge sparks out of the power supply. So, replaced power supply (I'm in town now) and still the same so, either chip, board, or both. It's in the shop. *SIGH*
Now the worst. *BIG SIGH* *Cig break* Ok, so I'm coming back from photographing the gulls/terns at the locks. As we pull into the driveway there's a rabbit, and naturally Gracie goes crazy ape-shit bonkers. I say there there, of course I'll let you out, go nuts. As she squirms past me in her haste to get out, she snags the camera strap around her neck and legs, and tears down the driveway with the camera bouncing behind her. I retrieve the camera and breath a mighty sigh of relief when i find there's only a bit of grit that can be worked out in the 70-210mm lens.
A week later or so, on the 24'th, I'm out at Hilbre beach at 5:00 am to catch the sunrise and hopefully some hot wet beaver action (haven't seen them this year). I pull out the Meade, balance it on my shoulder, head for the beach, and trip. I fall to protect the Meade but the camera slung over my shoulder takes a hit. Still ok though so I proceed as usual. I should note that with my hip joints dead I have very limited range of motion with them, turning is an absolute NO NO period, and I couldn't stand with my legs say, two feet apart. Basically I walk like a geisha, seriously. I also gobble T3's like Smarties and have maybe half an hour, maybe an hour before my legs and hips just won't support me anymore, they just say no. So in other words I do actually hurt myself a fair bit just to take them, and I use my limited amount of standing up and moving to take them rather than something else like say, clean up this place! ;) So when I tripped there I knew I was going down, I can't move my legs far enough or fast enough to prevent a fall. Consider this, and then consider I take a lot of pictures while standing in mud, or water, or on a clutter of stones that are um... hard as rock.
I usually sleep during the day when sunrise and sunset are so close together, it barely gets dark up here. I'm up that evening getting ready for just a wee jaunt so's the Gracie won't kill me with voodoo puppy eyes. I pick up the camera, and the zoom lens slides apart into two pieces, the barrel drops on the ground.
It's my main workhorse, even for close-up work like that Untitled pic I just posted. Wade in with the boots, disturb scene, ripples etc etc, just to hit it with the 28mm, or hit it with the 210mm while standing on shore. And outdoors means distance! 70mm is not in the running, not even close. Without this lens or something like it, I'm fucked, out of business.
With all that me mum has done for me how much more can I ask? She's not exactly swimming in it and already as I've said, helps with so much. So I'm asking you now, please, if my pictures have brought you five dollars worth of pleasure, please please drop em in the hat! I'm so acutely aware of the turn of the seasons, the missed opportunities as the moon whirls around, only three days in the summer where the full moon is setting right as the sun is rising for instance.
My mom's PayPal address is wilna@dehls.net Please help me get back in business. It's the morning of the 3'rd of July and I have $20 in the bank, a few bills in my pocket for the month. I hate asking for help but at this point I've no choice. What I can do is this, anyone who can make a donation of any sort, I'll gladly send you the full files for almost any pictures you'd like. I say almost only because there's a very select few, very few, that are just a bit too personal for me to share that way, but I doubt if these pictures would be your pics anyways.
Thanks
Atomicat
So thanks for all you've done!
~Eagle
Heh, that smelly critter, I never argued with him really as there's no point in arguing with someone who's that far down the road and will never change their minds. In a "discussion" like that what I'm doing is basically raising points for the readers, and playing of his natural stupidity to show others what's going on. He doesn't know it but he himself does quite a bit of damage to his "cause" which is why I say Palin in 2012! Woohoo! *grabs his popcorn*
Hah! Yes, definitely. So much hot air is passed between folks in that journal, that it begins to stink faster than it otherwise would. I unwatchd him ages ago. Not that anything he says matters anyway. And yes, I totally agree. Secretly, I want Palin to win the nomination so it's that much easier to win against some pathetic ignorant fool. ;)
Bury Palin comment here, like a bad smell! She's the same type of psycho as my dad.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/.....ah-palin200908
Oh, first apps that went in were all the Nikon and post-prod tools of course. This reminded me that I should get back to those who tossed in and ask, well, what pics you want! Do NOT be shy about this. If I wanted to pull out a selfish reason for this it certainly ain't hard, the more that see the greater the odds that it'll lead to something, no? So, what's your favorites, any special type or theme?
As for pics ... I'm quite fond of your Fire and Ice series. :)
Do you also mind if I poke you for random photography tips and pointers from time to time? I just bought a camera of my own a few weeks ago, and while I'm learning more about it every day, there's probably so much more. :P
http://atomicat.com/files/pics/SteepRock_1375.jpg
http://atomicat.com/files/pics/SteepRock_1377.jpg
As for da drink, I don't do that no more. Just don't have much of a desire but I do like a couple here and there. It is an aquired taste though.
And yes, I'd be glad to share any knowledge I've picked up and yah, I'm learning all the time too. That's the way it should be! Experiment like hell and have fun with it. When you get a good subject remember to hit it all over, and with all sorts of settings. Get to know your tool/instrument!
You can't make progress when you're pessimistic and depressive, you just can't! However shitty the facts might be you really do have to ignore them somewhat. Know who one of my biggest heroes is... Ed Wood.
I am sort of fresh out of money (less than 20 dollars in bank account, no job, leeching from parents) myself... sorry i can't help. D:
i love to cook myself, but i am also very lazy and easily satisfied.
for some reason i'm really fond of "poor man's meal" as some old lady taught how to make it on an internet video. chopped up potato, hot dog, and onion fried.
And if I could just find the fucking thing, I know i have a rip of an east-german-beach-musical somewhere, and it's the most retarded thing and the songs are even catchy and I'd mail you that but I can't. goddamn. find the file. D:
Invest in spices! Loads of rice and spices are the salvation of any poor person, best investment ever. I had a jar, a single jar of green thai curry paste last me over THREE YEARS!!! Know your spices and you'll never eat the same thing twice.
-oregano
-garlic salt
-cayenne
-"thai seasoning"
-cinnamon
but that's a good plan.
i'd get beans but the last time i did they smelled like cat food and i couldn't bear to eat them...
if you haven't seen it: Stalker is required viewing for everyone in the world. And a weird-ass danish TV show htat could keep you occupied for a while: Lars Von Trier's Kingdom.
and gods do i understand the whole walk like a geisha thing... I think i am going to be doing very little walking at all for the next few days. i am all sorts of crippled up from AC with all the walking one has to do to get around.