I got lots of great shots of distant birds, but I could not take a close up of an insect or any other tiny object I came across.
I always had the opposite issue in that i could never take great distance shots but there was something quite magical about those detailed closeups that I can’t duplicate with an iPhone. I find i have to back up & much further than I’d like.
“The fact is I can take a photo and send it to anyone on the planet and they can view it less than a minute after the shot is taken It is just totally mind blowing.”
Right??! It’s that nostalgia because I recall so much said in college about how one day we’d be able to talk to ppl across the world. Back then it was over $25 a min to call Buenos Aires & to receive a call was worse. They had to use these ‘cafés’ to make the calls and per minute was like double my AT&T International bill.
It all happened so fast and I don’t even think, although I could be wrong, that it was that common on MySpace to interact so much with people from foreign countries. By the time Facebook (and all the games that used to be on there) was all the rage, somehow the transition took place and I recall having back-and-forth conversations with people in the Middle East & worldwide in real time.
I remember when even the local paper really didn’t discuss much except for local news. For National news maybe there was a larger section but for international there were just a couple of headlines … maybe.
I was talking to my dad once about Woodstock. I don’t remember what I said but something like what was that like at that time? He said that living in East Texas, in Longview with the Longview News Journal, that they had no clue about some event that occurred on some small farm up in New York. Okay history painted a different picture for me as it made it sound like Woodstock was almost world renowned & it is now, of course. Yet to hear him tell me that they didn’t even know anything about it really put things in perspective.
I recall flying through NYC on my way to Portland, Maine to go to the home office for work. I went during the day so I could see. We landed at Newark to switch to a ‘puddle jumper’. I was amazed that by looking out the window in Newark, I could actually see New York City! Even when I found out we were flying over the state of New York, back then in my 20s I was actually completely confused because due to television and I guess just those ideas that are formed like the way that many people think everyone in Texas is… Anyway for whatever reason which has to be tv, I thought the entire state of New York was NYC. I thought the entire state was Manhattan Island. Plus I couldn’t believe that standing in NJ, I could actually see NYC, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis island, the Verrazano bridge… had I never flown, I’m not sure what I would think today. I had no clue that there were farms & cows & crops - that we flew over so much green land & agriculture. It was simply amazing. I had always heard that the only way to make more room in New York was to go up hence this packed island of skyscrapers. Hmph.
TEXANS
Link to clip I just posted to show how many view Texans.
