The light beams in the background was the only light we had last week while on the Darth Vadar's ship.
In the foreground is California photographer Tom.
Can't wait to go back out later this year when the spoon chicks are out and about ...
Tom, Darth, and the Scant Solar Rays
The light beams in the background was the only light we had last week while on the Darth Vadar's ship.
In the foreground is California photographer Tom.
Can't wait to go back out later this year when the spoon chicks are out and about ...
Last edited by Michael Pancier; 03-30-2008 at 09:38 PM.
Cool image Michael!
Well captured Michael and great to meet a friend from Flickr in the field. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Michael, Are you sure that is Tom Merigan??? I had a Tom Merigan on my last IPT and this is not hiim. Maybe there are two of them? Later and love, artie
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He was on our boat ride with James. Same guy from Stanford no? or am I hallucinating?
I think we should offer a prize to anyone who catches James
without wearing that Florida Gator hat.
Doug
Originally Posted by Michael Pancier
Yes to on our boat ride with James, yes to hallucinating as to his ID... The Tom Merigan from Stanford is short and bubbly. Later and love, artie
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That is not Tom !!!! ..... I think spoons have an affect on Mike Still gets a sensory overload with them !!!!
The guy in the pic WAS a Tom, but he was not Tom Merigan of Stanford.
later and love, artie
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I can just see some little guy on the shore pointing aft and hollering "the light, the light"
wrong Tom I must be hallucinating. I thought this one said he was from Cali too and I made an assumption from your post. IN any event, I know the Tom from the IPT from Flickr and the two Toms wear similar hats ...
:eek:
There are two bird photographers from Stanford named Tom. Tom Merigan is a retired medical school prof who has been on Art Morris IPTs; Tom Grey, that's me in the picture, is a retired law school prof who was on the Shadle/Neiger Best of Florida March 19-26.
I must add a story about pedagogy from that morning, March 22. Art Morris was out with us. James had been trying to talk me into going to manual exposure from aperture priority. He was being gently persuasive but I was being an old guy fixed in my ways. Later in the morning when the light was brighter I was sitting in the boat shooting (still aperture) and Art came back from wading. Spoonies and White Ibis were flying above the mangroves and below, and I was spinning the big dial, which I mentioned, adding "I guess you don't spin the dial, you do manual." Art took the Noo Yawk rather than the Central Florida pedagogic approach -- "you have to shoot manual!" I told him I had been doing aperture for years and it was a habit that generally it worked for me. Art: "That's absolutely insane!" Now from my long experience in teaching, this would not work with all or even most students, but for some reason it worked with me -- I started trying manual that very morning, and have been shooting it since.
By the way, James and Jim both gave absolutely fabulous experiences. And thanks to Michael Pancier for the picture!
Ah, the mystery is solved. And I was actually wrong, well, half-wrong. Even that is a rare ocurrenceBut at least that makes me 1/2 right. And yes, using Aperture Priority whent he background might change from sky to mangroves to water is certifiably insane. Sometimes you have to be blunt to get the student to understand!
later and love, artie
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Thanks for clearing that up. Wild coincidence huh? Pleasure meeting you ....
in fact, what are the odds of two Toms, both retired professors from Stanford, both avian photographers, would be shooting with Artie on the same weekend? any pics for the final 4? go UCLA
Last edited by Michael Pancier; 03-31-2008 at 12:58 PM.
I know a Tom Grey when I see one ;) Thanks to the image he posted in the introduction forum I knew right away.
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