Your Great Photographic Moments?

[Christine Aguila]

Marnie:  Very glad you popped in.  And I loved reading your story.  I can 
imagine the beauty you describe.  It must have been incredible to see.  Glad 
you're getting things done.  Don't be away for too long.  Cheers, Christine


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> Been checking PDML Archive now and then to see  what's happening. Thought 
> I'd
> pop in to answer this. Then unsubscribe again  (yes, getting things done).
>
> My greatest moment was when I was in my  thirties and still using a P&S
> camera (Pentax) and taking not so good  pictures.
>
> I went to Club Med Tahiti. When we got off the small plane from  Tahiti to
> Bora, Bora, there was a pier right near the plane. The airport landing 
> field
> was on a long skinny peninsula (built up reef) and one went by boat over 
> to the
> rest of the island.
>
> It was so beautiful I was almost literally  dropped to me knees. I was
> stunned. Camera came out naturally, everyone brought  theirs out. Not sure 
> I didn't
> drop to my knees to take a shot of the island --  struck down by beauty. 
> :-).
> Blue, blue (turquoise) water, craggy mountain  literally covered by green
> (native trees in Tahiti are actually like Monterey  pines, but coconut 
> palms were
> introduced around the time of captain cook) and  palms, palms palms.
>
> We had been chattering a lot on the plane, but on  that pier people were
> silent... for about 5-10 minutes, just taking it all in  and taking 
> pictures.
>
> Of course, none of my pictures turned out that well,  but some I got on 
> that
> vacation were sort of decent. Later I stuffed them away.  After I moved to 
> my
> present location I pulled them out and discovered water had  gotten on the
> prints and they were stuck together. (I had framed the best right  after 
> the
> trip.) Negatives are okay. I have a flat bed scanner so I scanned the 
> prints
> (negatives don't scan that well on it) and printed up some. Lots of 
> degradation
> in quality due to age and bad storing and maybe water. But it  reminds me.
>
> That trip is really what made me want to become a better  photographer, so
> the next time I ran across such beauty I could do it more  justice. 
> Although I
> didn't really get around to it until about 25 years  later.
>
> Marnie aka Doe  :-)  Leaving again, back  later.
>
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