[pure-silver] Re: Yosemite

Bogdan

I don't think I would have been able to bite my tongue with all that going
on.
What more could have been done to you if you had given them a piece of your
mind?  It's not as if you were travelling through Zimbabwe or some other
barbaric land.

Don Sweet

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bogdan Karasek" <bkarasek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:45 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Yosemite


> Hi Justin,
>
> I just got back this morning from Death Valley; took the red eye from
> Vegas with a transfer in Toronto.   I'm still in recovery mode, so I'll
> be brief.  you don't want to be lugging a 4x5 with you when you are
> flying.  I imagine that to get to Yosemite, you will have to take at
> least two flights each way, which means that each time you are getting
> on an airplane, they will take your camera bag apart, including your
> hiking boots,  belt, watch, spare coins hidden in the recesses of a
> pocket and when you are tired from lugging all that equipement around,
> you do not feel very co-operative.   Vegas was fine, OK.   The flight
> left at  23:20pm and there was only one other  flight leaving from
> terminal Two so everything was very relaxed.  But they are thorough.
> After the camera bag had gone through the scanning machine, they took
> out my two Yashica-mats and X-rayed each one.  Roll film they
> understand, but 4x5 sheet film can be a hassle, so save yourself a lot
> of frustration, and it can get very frustrating if it is very very
> crowded, as when I had to change flights in Toronto.  Everybody from
> Vegas and elsewhere was getting a connecting flight in Toronto to
> someplace else in Canada, so the security system was stretched to the
> limits and then some.   I can just see the metal wires on your
> darkslides setting the machines off and they will want to know why.
> Unless, you run into somebody who knows about darkslides and how they
> work, you might have to land up pulling the slide and exposing the
> film.  And of course, there is a crowd behind you that is in a hurry
> because they want to get a coffee before making their connecting flight
> and you are slowing them down.  I was in the unfortunate situation where
> I had removed all metal objects from my clothes, metal snaps had been
> accounted for and the walk through detector was still going off.  Then,
> I realized the problem.  I had a hip replacement several years ago and
> have a piece of titanium in my thigh bone.  Would they believe me.  NO!
> Into a private room and I had to show them my scar and they ran the
> metal detector over it and were finally satisfied that the metal was
> inside my hip.    After not sleeping all night on the red-eye, I was
> ready to give them a piece of my mind, but I bite my tongue.  Wouldn't
> have helped any.
>
> Stick with the Hassies;  less of a hassle and you don't have to open up
> your 4x5 to show and explain that it is a camera; and then the film
> holders....  another can of worms to avoid.
>
> And this obsession with removing your shoes; fine if you are wearing
> sandals but I was wearing  ankle high  hiking boots.
>
> Do yourself a favour, Justin, bring the hassies and you'll enjoy the
> trip more.
>
> More on Death Valley tomorrow.  But I will add that the haze was very
> bad because of the smoke from the brush fires in the Bay Area.  There
> was a just a pall hanging over the valley.  At one point, you could
> barely  make out  the Panamint range from Dante's View; it was that
> bad.  And the humidity was high, on Tuesday it was 17% where it should
> normally be around 2-3%.
>
> But despite the 120°F heat, it was all worth it!  It was everything
> everybody said it would be and even more to my mind.  it's not just
> about the photography......
>
> Have yourself a great trip, Justin.
>
> Cheers,
> Bogdan
>
> Justin F. Knotzke wrote:
>
> >   Hi,
> >
> >   Since you were all so kind in helping my fellow Montrealer Bogdan,
> >I'd like to ask for similar advice.
> >
> >   We are heading off to Yosemite for two full days in August. We've
> >found ourselves a nice B&B to stay. Given that we have never been and
> >also given that we aren't camping. Could people suggest what we should
> >aim for in terms of photo shoots ? I haven't decided if I should lug
> >the 4x5 with me yet or just the Hasselblad.. Either way, I am open to
> >full suggestions.
> >
> >   Thanks
> >
> >   J
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> -- 
> ________________________________________________________________
>   Bogdan Karasek
>   Montréal, Québec                     bogdan(at)bogdanphoto.com
>   Canada                               www.bogdanphoto.com
>
>                      "I bear witness"
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