Comments on: Prisoner of Light https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/ Exploring life on a Vespa, Royal Enfield Himalayan, Honda Trail 125, and a Kawasaki W650 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:45:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3368 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:52:08 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3368 Irondad: Keep telling yourself reasons why you shouldn’t have a scooter. You’re still in danger.

I’m not sure exactly how the testing deal came about. I think it started back in February when I gave a talk about Scooter in the Sticks to a group of riders and would be riders at Innovation Park at Penn State. Craig Kissell of Kissell Motorsports was there and shortly after sent me an email. Things developed from there.

You should note that not once did I talk about front wheel skids at 80mph, packing iron in saddlebags, trying to catch speeding pickup trucks or riding a hundred miles in driving rain. I can’t imagine why someone wouldn’t load you their motorcycle. *grin*

I am the poster boy for slow. Slow, slower and stop. Most of the time.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3367 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:45:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3367 irondad: Dawn and dusk are good. Almost all light I shoot in is natural light. And then there is plain light, boring light, crappy light, shitty light and bad light just to name a few.

And foggy light, night, moonlight, starlight, rainy light, stormy light and a few others that are not as easy to come by but can be quite dramatic.

As far as any teaching goes—I learn far more from you than you’ll learn from me. My ability as an instructor pales in comparison.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3365 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:41:26 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3365 Sojourner rides: I agree with your thinking in principle but for me in practice the temporary nature is often not so temporary. I have a hard time just jumping into action. My mind is a terrible hindrance in some things. Fear, stubbornness, pride, whatever it is can keep me prisoner far longer than necessary or desired.

If it is a temporary pause for you I am envious!

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3364 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:38:42 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3364 bobskoot: Hah! You should see my rejects. I operate on the shoot a lot and even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile theory.

You are too kind in your comments.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3363 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:37:12 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3363 cpa3485 (Jim): Thanks for the kind words on the rainbow. Just a chance shot. Nice to have a camera available when that happens. It’s a habit that pays benefits from time to time.

Mark: I had similar training in 16mm film years ago. Rock steady was the watchword and standard. But things have changed and the rules are made to break. All of them. The only limits are what we make for ourselves. But I agree with you 100 percent — you have to know the rules before you can break them. Or at least it makes it easier to make things work for you.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3357 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:42:30 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3357 Brent: I learned the rules pretty fast but I had a heck of a time breaking them. Photo rules are the worst.

Ilford film has completely displace Kodak for me. I still have fond memories of Tri-X and Panatomic-X.

]]> By: irondad https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3355 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:15:47 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3355 P.S.

Parking was my dilemna when I rode a scooter from the shop to get coffee. I didn’t know whether to leave it in the street or tuck it under my arm and carry it in.

Then I saw a “No Pets” sign on the door.

How in the world did you work out the testing deal? For some reason nobody trusts me with their motorcycles.

]]> By: irondad https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3354 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:08:49 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3354 I’m an instructor so my job is to explain things succintly. So here goes on dramatic light.

Dawn, dusk, natural light.

Of course, that’s why I’m barely breaking the surface and you’re my photography guru. I agree with bobskoot. My best are your rejects.

]]> By: Sojourner rides https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3352 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:09:03 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3352 Interesting…I’m wondering…if were it not for being occasional prisoners or light, prisoners of thinking, or, prisoners of perspective, etc., how would we start to think in new ways? I sometimes think that being a prisoner and the desire for freedom forces seeing and doing in a new ways. I don’t like being a prison either but I’m trying to learn to embrace it and see it as a temporary pause necessary for jump starting the spirit to action?

]]> By: bobskoot https://scooterinthesticks.com/2009/07/prisoner-of-light/#comment-3351 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:30:03 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=408#comment-3351 Steve:

It’s all in your mind. Your pictures are stunning with whatever light is available. Most of us just strive to achieve the level of your “rejects”

bob
bobskoot: wet coast scootin

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