Shootout

Shootout at Robert Moses Field 5

Okay, now here's a beach picture of a somewhat different kind. I love taking people pictures at the beach during the colder months, they often have a strangely "staged" feel to them. And yes, these ladies cracked me up. As much as I love photography, I kind of resent people who drag around big-gun equipment when they really don't know what they are doing at all and worse - don't even know that they don't know anything (at least I do ;). These three ladybugs arrived at the beach huffing and puffing just when the sun was hovering a couple of fingers above the horizon. Like synchronized swimmers, they all stopped moving at the same time, planted their feet firmly in the sand, then whipped out their Nikon D-SLRs. They never moved, never checked their displays, never changed a setting or a lens. And although it was neither windy nor cold, as soon as the last sliver of sun had disappeared, they turned on their heels and marched back to the parking lot without so much as giving the beautiful water and sky another glance. Oh, but what really got me was the one who kept firing the little pop-up flash on her camera - with nothing to illuminate in between her and the setting sun 93 million miles away. Sigh...