RJM62
Touchdown! Greaser!
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- Jun 15, 2007
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- Upstate New York
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Geek on the Hill
I don't consider myself a particularly good photographer, but I've gotten so many compliments on some of the pictures I've taken since I semi-retired that I've decided to give stock photography a try as a sideline. The way I see it, it's like free money because I take a lot of pictures anyway.
Today I went out to take some shots of an old (but still active) railroad bridge. One of the agencies I'm interested in dealing with said that they liked the photos I sent them, but they were all macro shots. They wanted to see some examples of my handling of perspective in wider shots. I decided that I cold get some good perspective shots from the span itself and the tracks leading up to it.
While I was climbing the trail to the track, I dropped my BlackBerry; and I didn't notice it until much later on, after I'd shot a few other locations. They were all in relatively remote, weed-filled areas, some of which took some climbing to get to, where there was basically no chance of my finding the BlackBerry unless I happened across a bloodhound with nothing to do on a Sunday.
I was already resigned to calling my buddy and having him express mail me a new BlackBerry when I remembered the "BlackBerry Protect" feature. So when I got home, I logged into BlackBerry Protect, and voila' -- they contacted the device and pulled up a GPS location and satellite map of the device's whereabouts.
It was where I parked to shoot the railroad bridge -- which was a much better place to lose a phone than some of the other places I'd been today.
BlackBerry Protect also let me remotely lock the phone and put a reward message on the display. Other options include making it ring loudly (useful for when you lose the phone in the house or car -- I've used that one a few times), wipe the phone, or transfer the backed-up settings and data to a new BlackBerry if you can't find the lost one.
But in this case, the location was only about 18 miles away, so I went back out there. Sure enough, there was the phone, just a few feet from where the satellite photo said it would be.
Long story short: Instead of whatever my buddy / client in the business would have charged me for a new BlackBerry, it cost me about $3.50 in gas to go retrieve it.
Life is good.
-Rich
Today I went out to take some shots of an old (but still active) railroad bridge. One of the agencies I'm interested in dealing with said that they liked the photos I sent them, but they were all macro shots. They wanted to see some examples of my handling of perspective in wider shots. I decided that I cold get some good perspective shots from the span itself and the tracks leading up to it.
While I was climbing the trail to the track, I dropped my BlackBerry; and I didn't notice it until much later on, after I'd shot a few other locations. They were all in relatively remote, weed-filled areas, some of which took some climbing to get to, where there was basically no chance of my finding the BlackBerry unless I happened across a bloodhound with nothing to do on a Sunday.
I was already resigned to calling my buddy and having him express mail me a new BlackBerry when I remembered the "BlackBerry Protect" feature. So when I got home, I logged into BlackBerry Protect, and voila' -- they contacted the device and pulled up a GPS location and satellite map of the device's whereabouts.
It was where I parked to shoot the railroad bridge -- which was a much better place to lose a phone than some of the other places I'd been today.
BlackBerry Protect also let me remotely lock the phone and put a reward message on the display. Other options include making it ring loudly (useful for when you lose the phone in the house or car -- I've used that one a few times), wipe the phone, or transfer the backed-up settings and data to a new BlackBerry if you can't find the lost one.
But in this case, the location was only about 18 miles away, so I went back out there. Sure enough, there was the phone, just a few feet from where the satellite photo said it would be.
Long story short: Instead of whatever my buddy / client in the business would have charged me for a new BlackBerry, it cost me about $3.50 in gas to go retrieve it.
Life is good.
-Rich