There's some funny folk about........

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.....there really are some funny folk about :eek: :suspect: last night Andrew (AndWhyNot), Darrell (thedodo) and myself met up for a light painting session in a favorite location of mine since Andrew was coming up to the area for the day...

Anyway the location is a large tunnel where over the last few weeks we have done quite a bit of light painting and wire wool etc, anyway last night to make it a little bit special I had arrange for a generator so we could power some of the lasers and the smoke machine that is part of Darrell and myself's normal work life...so we have a generator, associated power cables various black boxes of tricks and large light rig for attaching the various toys we were using and it's at this point before we had actually got cameras out that a car pulled up and some guy got out of the car and comes walking over...

...nothing wrong at this stage you might think, and neither did we, we are all seasoned night shooters that are specialists in some quite crazy stuff as a result we quite often attract the locals either wondering what we are doing or checking that we are not breaking the law :lol: and almost as often as we get the general public's attention we get the police stopping to check what we're up to, and as a rule that's never normally an issue either :thumbs: though we have all had bad run in's with the police too :shake:...

...anyway back to the guy...he approaches and asks what we're up to, so naturally we told him we're there for some photography fun taking photo's of lights and being overall rather creative :D...we were all privately thinking that we've not told/invited any other photographers along..and it would be a bit random to have another photographer turn up on his own as this location is right in the middle of nowhere :suspect:...so what is he there for...it's at this point that he then turns round and said "yeah, but what else are you here for?" our response to him was "just photo's, what are you here for?" and this is where it got a little shocking, he turned round and quite openly said that he has come from Sutton Coldfield and that it's a active dogging location and he thought that he's come over to this location to see what action there was :eek: now each to his or her own...

Now I've no issue with doggers if they want to go out and do that kind thing well that's up to them, but seriously what kind of extream dogging did he think that 3 blokes with the above mentioned equipment were out to do that night :suspect: :eek:

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Matt, thank you....seriously. I just laughed like a loon reading that.
 
You could have made a few quid shooting high quality shots for the doggers!
 
Would this be the same location you took me to last week, and the "suspect" camper van?
 
it wasnt lynton's mate, Mike was it ?
 
Matt, thank you....seriously. I just laughed like a loon reading that.

Good, glad it had that effect :D

You could have made a few quid shooting high quality shots for the doggers!

:lol: didn't need to be high quality, just identifying and then I could have made even more ;)

I'm sure there were some Tory MPs several years ago who'd have made good use of your equipment.;)

:lol: I'm sure that they would have :D

Would this be the same location you took me to last week, and the "suspect" camper van?

It would be the one and the same :lol:

it wasnt lynton's mate, Mike was it ?

:schtum: :D
 
Slimbert said:
Lynton once took me to a dogging site to do some "photography".

He's got form.

That he has, maybe he arranged for the location I was going to take him to be locked just so he would end up at a digging spot :suspect:
 
it's at this point that he then turns round and said "yeah, but what else are you here for?" our response to him was "just photo's, what are you here for?" and this is where it got a little shocking, he turned round and quite openly said that he has come from Sutton Coldfield and that it's a active dogging location and he thought that he's come over to this location to see what action there was :eek: now each to his or her own...

Now I've no issue with doggers if they want to go out and do that kind thing well that's up to them, but seriously what kind of extream dogging did he think that 3 blokes with the above mentioned equipment were out to do that night :suspect: :eek:

Matt
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:eek::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Brilliant - at times I am quite glad that I have led a relatively sheltered life;)
 
That's brought a whole new meaning to night time long exposures.
 
the question is though do you flash :lol:
 
I am back in SOA 18-22 / March....:lol::lol::lol:
 
Thread necromancy
 
He hasn't been here for a while, and is catching up, I think! :p
 
funny story. you had me interested when you mentioned lasers. you plugging in big argon ones or smaller lab units?
 
funny story. you had me interested when you mentioned lasers. you plugging in big argon ones or smaller lab units?

Much more mundane, we're only talking stock disco lasers nothing technical or fancy, and as it happens the laser used this night will never be used again as it was destroyed in my crash :(
 
sorry to hear you had a crash, I hope nothing human was hurt too badly. A laser can be replaced (well most of the time :P)

Nice to see someone else who realises the potential of lasers and doesn't just think they're what people use to point at planes. I should post some of my laser photos here some time...
 
sorry to hear you had a crash, I hope nothing human was hurt too badly. A laser can be replaced (well most of the time :p)

Nice to see someone else who realises the potential of lasers and doesn't just think they're what people use to point at planes. I should post some of my laser photos here some time...

Being an absolute aviation nutter I don't have a lot of time for people who point them at airplanes..so I'm with you there...I'd love to see them so drop me a link when you get that thread started :D

As to the crash, it's put me on ice for a few months but I should be back in action presently, just started car shopping :D
 
That's a pretty funky coloured image Matt, just read the thread from the start it made me giggle a bit.

It was a pretty funky night Mandy, a lot of fun though and hard to believe its nearly 12 months ago :( need to get down there again soon
 
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