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Dear Diary,
I've just dragged myself out of bed.... its a strange feeling to be dragging myself out of bed on the weekend when I can't do it during the week. Yesterday I was supposed to get up early and go see some markets.... well, when the alarm went off my partner and I suddenly found about five good reasons not to... he also offered that we could go this morning instead - I took him up on that... until he got up later that day and had no recollection and the offer no longer stood. But anyway, we both went to bed in the early hours this morning and I'm now up to get myself and my camera ready to go to a bmx racing open day.
I need to put a set of batteries in my camera so I can clear and format both the memory cards. I hope when I put my new eneloops in they will make the camera's battery indicator light up to full... I'm gonna go crazy if the eneloops can't do that. I also need to separate the batteries out into sets, number the sets and bag them up. Last night I was supposed to go through the manual and my dummies guide to check out techniques to try and to refresh on the settings available with my camera... I went through the manual briefly - I feel like I've memorised the important things and I'm gonna try out the continous shooting option.
I'm excited about going out to see these races today. I do feel a little hesitant about photographing... I'm pretty sure I won't be the only person taking photos during the day.... but.... I'd get more attention taking photos than if I just sat casually in amongst the crowd. Well.... I'm just gonna have to get over that I guess. I'm still a little wary about photographing minors... when I played soccer it was a really big deal and if anyone wanted to take photos at a game they had to get permission from the parents of the minors - something had to get signed off. Well... people are always sticking photos all over the forum of all the bmx kids... maybe this sport has just not gone that crazy yet? Or... maybe parents don't get so nervous when their kids are covered from head to toe including a full face helmet.
The other thing that is slightly tugging at my mind today is that the place will be swarming with people from the bmx forum.... I'm confident there's no one I could pick by sight and no one there could pick me by sight. However, seeing as some of those guys are from the club and are involved in the organisation of the day I might hear names over a loudspeaker... or just overhear names at some point.... I don't think I'll go approach anyone to say "hi". Well.... its certainly not like I'm some kinda star at the forum - probably most of them wouldn't know me even if I introduced myself by my handle. There's one guy I've spoken to through one email exchange - I did tell him I'd say "hi" if I saw him at a race sometime and recognised him... chances are I'll have no way to know its him and even if I know I don't think it'll make any difference not going up. I'm still finding my feet with this sport and I know there are some smartarses out there..... just don't wanna leave myself open to getting set upon or anything... D said I should introduce myself to some of the forum guys 'cause one day I might need some help with something or might just wanna see a friendly face... its wise advice.... maybe next time I'll take it up...
Anyway.... gotta get going with all my preparations. I'll report back afterwards. We might go to a gig tonight too so I probably won't report back tonight... |
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Posted by crashing_down on 2008-06-07 19:33:21 | Rating: | Views: 33
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