2) The Secret Service doesn’t: This clown could have entombed President Bush in Silly String before Secret Service finally got to him. And the press conference wasn’t in Cheyenne, WY, it’s in the middle of Iraq. Shouldn’t they be a little more prepared to react? I think the overweight agent that comes piling out of the door about 6 seconds after the first shoe is thrown, was finishing up a Big Mac value meal.
OVER THE EARPIECE: The President is being attacked!!!!
Fat Agent: It’s gonna have to wait. Have you had these McDonald’s fries?!? They’re heavenly.
3) Even though this was dangerous and angers me to no end that our President was assaulted, you have to give it to the guy for improv. If he’d worn some of those trendy, pointy shoes that guys are wearing all the time these days, he might have skewered the Pres. pretty good.
I get asked pretty often what all the crazy settings are on top of cameras. M, Av, Tv, etc. Usually, people buy a nice camera and leave it on Auto. If you learn just a little about what the concepts of Shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, and flash, your pictures will be exponentially better.
The following two hyperlinks are some of the best, easy-to-understand tutorials I’ve ever read explaining these basics. Read it with your camera in hand and try them out. If you can practice with the various settings for just a few minutes here and there, you’ll unlock the mystery, and then it starts getting really exciting to take photos. I used to always hate that I had to hope my camera would figure out what I wanted to do. Now I know exactly how to get the shot I want by combining several moving variables.
This is Joey the garden cat, the official cat of the crew at KTHV in Little Rock. He hangs around and causes mischief. I snapped this photo of him when I was there a couple months ago. I thought Joey deserved a proper print ad.
