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| September 7, 1998 Today's Question: An Answer From
A Reader:
Depending on the speed of the water and my angle to it, between 1/15th and 1/60th. Photographing moving water with a fast shutter speed to stop action gives rise to disquietude in the final print, from my experience. Fred in Tennessee September 21, 1998 I spent most of the weekend resting and reading newspapers and doing very little after all the activity and cross-country travel of the past three weeks. But on Sunday we went across the Bay to visit Joe and Patti and to meet their new eight week old Flatcoat Retriever puppy, and to let Bethany play with the pooch. I'm not sure which one considered the other one as a new toy. Maybe both of them reached the same conclusion. 
As always, it was relaxing to be with old friends and to just sit around and talk and play. Joe and Patti also have a two-year-old Flatcoat named Pete, and Bethany is no longer afraid of his size or bark and she loves to chase him around the swimming pool, throwing his toys in the water for Pete to dive in and retrieve. The big flying splash Pete makes when he hits the water never fails to make Bethany giggle. The pagers used by Chrisse's office
are not working this week, so now the phone rings all the time, night
and day. It's not as annoying in the afternoon as it is in the middle
of the night, when everyone has just hit the point of being sound asleep.
It seems once I'm knocked out of my deep sleep, then I just spend the
rest of the night dozing in that weird place that's between being not
quite awake and not quite asleep, and looking at the clock every fifteen
minutes to see if it's time to get up yet. Not restful.
Despite getting some decent sleep over the weekend, I'm still just really tired. It's only Monday, and my body feels like it's Friday. It's a long haul to the weekend too... three days of shooting this week, with some possible additional assignments at work before Friday. I want to work on the book this week, too, but that really makes for a short evening if I stay at the computer until eight or nine o'clock and then still have a one hour drive home. I'm looking forward to shooting an upcoming NFL game in the next few weeks, either the 49er's or the Raiders, or both. The 49er's are at home next Sunday against Atlanta, and the Raiders aren't home again until Oct. 11 against San Diego. With that, the portfolio book will be updated and nearly complete and I'll be ready to fly to Phoenix to Paul's house to print it. I'm still hoping to get one missing negative from Pittsburgh and some missing negatives from the Reuter archives to include in the book. But if they don't show up, I'll work around it. The latest craze at the office is the Teletubbies with Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. I have to admit, I like watching them at home with Bethany because she enjoys them so much. But at work, these are 25-year-old Internet technologists with no children.... and they are hooked on Teletubbies, and walk around saying "Laa-Laa" and "Eh-Oh" all the time, which causes everyone else to giggle. One of the graphic artists found a Teletubbies VHS tape, and it plays over and over on the VCR in our department as background entertainment. The last time I was around a group of
people who acted like this every day, they were on mushroom tea.
Yikes. September 21, 1998 Donald Winslow
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