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I spent the past weekend selling framed
prints at a huge asian bazaar on Yokosuka base. Saturday
was extremely busy, Sunday a bit slower, but all in
all it was a good weekend.
I sold quite a few photos (Around
70 I think) so I had a lot less stuff to pack up at
the end of the sale. Now I've got to get busy and decide
what new photos to print out for my next sale. There
are some really popular shots that always sell well
and I will be sure to get more copies of those, but
I also want to take this opportunity to get a whole
bunch of new ones printed. You know, keep my inventory
fresh.
I like to limit my inventory to what
I can pack into my car. This keeps me from taking multiple
trips when I set up for a sale. Now that I have freed
up a good chunk of space I have to start wading through
my archives to come up with some replacements.
As a reward to myself, I used some
of my profits from this past weekend and did a little
eBay shopping last night, scoring a great price on a
nice Hasselblad 500 C/M with a Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm
f2.8 lens, waist level finder, and 3 film backs. I can't
wait to put some film through it... The addiction continues...
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Switching gears for a minute, let me talk about some
current events in the world.
Today a new Pope was selected. It
seems to have been a pretty unanimous event since it
did not take too long for the final decision.
Upon being selected, the first thing
the new Pope did was to choose a new name. (I had never
realized this happened since I was too young to understand
this at the time when Pop John Paul II assumed the office)
This got me to thinking.
There are a lot of similarities between
Rap Stars and the Pope.
1. Each take "Stage Names"
which can differ considerably from their real names.
Case in point, Germany's Joseph Ratzinger, as the 265th
pope has choosen the name "Benedict XVI".
In keeping with the times I think a name with a little
more pizazz, a littel more zip may
have been just what the Catholic Church needed to reverse
their flaging church attendance in the western world.
Maybe "Eggy One Six" or "G of the Cloth"
or Spiritual Torpedo" would have connected better
with todays generation......
Then again, maybe not.
2. Both become fabulously wealthy. (Granted the Pope
is likely not able to splurge on hot cars, hot women,
all night parties, etc, but then again, I am sure the
Vatican has a much better dental plan than your average
record label....)
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There are plenty of festivals on tap this spring. One
I will be sure not to miss is the May 29th Yabusame
Festival in Aburatsubo on the Miura Penninsula. I attended
this same festival a while back, but my photo gear at
the time (Olympus E10) was not quite up to the task
and I missed a lot of the action shots.
I can't wait to see how the 1D Mark II handles it...
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