Comments on: West, North, East, but not South http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2006/10/west_north_east_but_not_south/ Schrodinger's tagline is both clever and banal at the same time Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: WeeDram http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2006/10/west_north_east_but_not_south/#comment-2037 WeeDram Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:01:47 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=612#comment-2037 Guyk:  There is something about the smells around the grain elevators, in the fields, isn’t there?  While I am thoroughly divorced from the Midwest now, those smells, and those of an impending thunderstorm or a humid summer night are supremely evocative.

]]> By: webs05 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2006/10/west_north_east_but_not_south/#comment-2036 webs05 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:28:58 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=612#comment-2036 Very beautiful pictures.  Kinda sucks you had wait all that time for the battery to run out.  I guess that gets a big time Homer DOH!!!!! ;-P

I still need to get a digital camera, but I might have to wait another year now.  Oh well, I still have my camera phone which takes decent pictures.

]]> By: GUYK http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2006/10/west_north_east_but_not_south/#comment-2035 GUYK Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:03:47 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=612#comment-2035 Nice shots. It has been a while since I have been in grain country. Here in my part of Florida we never see the grain elevators nor get the smell and the hustle and bustle of harvest.

]]> By: Mrs SEB http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2006/10/west_north_east_but_not_south/#comment-2034 Mrs SEB Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:32:39 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=612#comment-2034 LOL, damn battery:-)  Beautiful pictures!

]]> By: WeeDram http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2006/10/west_north_east_but_not_south/#comment-2033 WeeDram Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:51:28 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=612#comment-2033 Yes, I have had my share of similar failures due to too little film, etc.  And some of my cameras are electro-mechanical, so if the battery is exhausted you have limited options, such as only one available shutter speed.  And the XA, as you know is electronic, so with a dead battery no exposures are possible.  But then, the little battery that powers the little wonder is tiny, cheap (maybe $1.50 at most, half that for good shoppers), and powers the camera through hundreds of exposures, at least it seems.

Oh, and it (the XA) just returned from a CLA, fully refreshed with DOF-applied cork grip still intact.  That’s right, a camera of 20+ years is good to go another 20.  :lol:

Wonderful photos, BTW, evoking memories of other dawn photo sessions we shared.

]]> By: Abhilasha http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2006/10/west_north_east_but_not_south/#comment-2032 Abhilasha Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:58:12 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=612#comment-2032 I actually have bought a spare battery for my camera for the very same reason….

The last time I ran out of batteries, there was a beautiful rainbow accross the sky.. !!

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