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Still riding, accidentally deleted pictures

January 14, 2006 by Scooter in the Sticks 3 Comments

I have continued to ride when the roads are dry though around here that is becoming more and more rare. I took some pictures but accidentally deleted them from my camera before copying them to the computer. Man, they were great! *grin*

The Vespa is approaching 2300 miles so I am 300 away from my next oil change. Kissell Motorsports called to tell me they have the new rear racks in for the LX150 so I might have to have a look.

I took a shortcut home yesterday by using the freeway. I was moving along nicely at 60 MPH when I hit a huge crosswind. Good thing I was holding on tight otherwise I might have flown away. It was bad enough that I had to get off at the next exit and use the backroads. Even then the wind was strong. Really came up suddenly.

It’s raining right now and is forecast to change to snow. The prediction for the morning is clear and 30 degrees so perhaps I can get some riding in then.

Other than that there just isn’t much to report. Oh…. I did sell my 8×10 view camera and acquired a Mamiya 7. I can carry that along on the scooter. I still have plans to start some sort of scooter based/inspired photography project.

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  1. BillieS says

    January 20, 2006 at 3:41 am

    Bummer on the deleted pixs. But as they say s*#@ happens. I had it happen with film too

    I thought the pixs you were taking of the scooter was a photo project. At least I’m enjoying it.

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  2. Gary Charpentier says

    January 21, 2006 at 9:39 pm

    Hey Steve,

    How are things going? Your absence on my blog is conspicuous… I hope the whole scooter-nazi satire didn’t put you off.

    I look forward to your next images with the scooter-portable Mamiya.

    Warmest regards,
    =gc=

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  3. Steve Williams says

    January 22, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    billes: I’m moving along slowly with the photography and the riding mostly because of demands at work just keeping me running as a heightened pace. There will be more images to come soon though…

    gary: Yeah, I just haven’t had time to do much lately. Not to worry about the satire—I read it and thought it was great. I’ll get over to your site and post more often. I usually grab a quick look at work between meetings but even that has been hard to do of late. And I am printing for my MFA Show coming up in April so everything is nuts…

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