Shannon Drawe
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“Rick, you have a 3.5 (VQ) engine, newer motors are 4.0 (ZV-7) runs like an 8 cyl.”
Being the owner of a 1984 FJ60 with a Chevy 350 V8, I ‘gotta ask – what does “runs like an 8 cyl.” mean? How many HP are we talking?
Shannon
I think that is accurate, but therein lies the rub. Number one, two and three rules of retail; location, location and location. So, should we have fly shops by a scattered number of fishermen, by a prominent fishing location, or on a busy highway where everyone can see it, and maybe pique their interest by stopping to see what’s inside? Granted the Dallas-Fort Worth area is not a fly fishing hot spot, but has anyone noticed the overall demographics in that area? Huge.
ShannonQuick question: How many (mom & pop) fly shops do you have within a 50 mile radius of your location? I’m 30 miles outside Dallas (where Tailwaters is located), and the next closest I know of … 200 miles away. Shannon
And is this (mysterious to me) ADR function one that can be undone on the raw image? Yes, what camera model is that?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111623614
This IS the interview, but don’t listen unless you can handle the end of the world as we knew it.
ShannonThis is what I got back from Local KERA:
Topic
The Future of Media
Guest
Bob Garfield
Description
Is a new world dawning and more importantly, are we prepared to live in it? We’ll spend this hour with Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR’s On the Media and author of the new book “The Chaos Scenario, Amid the Ruins of Mass Media, The Choice for Business is Stark: Listen or Perish” (Stielstra Publishing, 2009).Jeff Whittington
Senior Producer & Host
KERA 90.1 / KERA 13
KXT 91.7
3000 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75201
214-740-5474I still have not found audio archive though.
ShannonYES! I see news gatherers everywhere interested in free content provided by a phone toting public. If you want to know why that is, there was a wonderful interview on NPR the other day – a writer talking about his book about the new paradigm where advertising no longer underwrites the cost of delivering content. The classic news organizations are struggling to adapt to the new world order of internet. I will dig into NPR, it may have been local KERA, and see if I can find a link to that interview. It was so prescient.
I am coming in at the end of this, but altogether, it [s:21h1qexf]could[/s:21h1qexf] would make great textbook text.
Has anyone broached the subject of ease of entry into the profession? When I was shooting Hasselblad, and some 35mm, I knew that every time I hit that shutter button MY COST was roughly 1 dollar. Forget the education, the overhead, all the CODB’s – that single dollar was enough to keep a lot of wanna’ be photographers at a distance. Now, digital has not leveled, but tilted the playing field, where anyone on any given day can “take a picture”. I say “take a picture” in the pejorative as those who know, know there is a difference.I am curios when I see ” … hope for photographers and artists and other creatives is the ability to drive their own content like the guys at Catch Magazine”. If it’s a for profit venture, I would assume advertising drives content in some classic sense? And does “driving your own content” become a worthy substitute for food on the table? I mean, what are the rates at Catch Magazine? Inquiring minds need to know.
Micro stock? I just know too many people who are making real money at it to bash it. This may be heresy, but sometimes there’s no better place for “spent” (as in used up) images to go to die. Why not think of micro stock as a facet of any modern business plan? The guys who shoot this stuff successfully, use their spare time (empty studios), spare talent and trend research to generate images that are of exceptional quality, but nothing like their day-to-day work. In fact, one rarely finds photographers whose day-to-day work is in high demand at stock agencies. The biggest sellers are typically the blandest to my eye. Just like that newfangled internet, the micro stock genie is out of the bottle, and there is no power great enough to ever get it back in the bottle. The good old days are never coming back, and the specialists who used to look down their noses at generalists such as myself, are now calling on the phone to ask how to shoot, how to price, how to market … how to survive. That last one always gets me though. The fact that I have time to write this much could tell everyone something.
Ben Cochran – you’re preaching religion! I think I have a man crush. Absolute pearls of wisdom. At the same time though, there’s a case to be made (in the new paradigm) for turnkey service – not simply windshield wipers or lug nuts, but the whole shooting match. I spend a good deal of professional energy (these days) not working horizontal markets, but looking for other business partnerships with synergies that can lead to dominant vertical integration. At the same time, I don’t delude myself into thinking I can be a jack-of-all-trades; I find those who are better at other things and try to pull it all together.
Closer to home, any still photographer who does not get on the video bandwagon, is in my opinion, leaving money on the table. In the near future, in my opinion, potential art buyers are going to say, “Do you do video too?”, as one of their top three questions – bank on it. Bandwidth is driving that train.
What’s that sound? I think my phone is ringing!
Shannon
An interesting angle on this is photographers, I know of, who actually lie about their rates and bookings. I am no psychologist, but it appears on one level their egos are battered, and on another level – saying you charge one thing and are actually charging a lot less, cons their fellow photographers into quoting higher rates.
Microstock will be here as long as still photography is digitally created … forever. If you care to do the volume of microstock images, you can, like a good friend of mine, have your 1-thousand a month studio rent covered by microstock income (and there are plenty of photographers making a real living at it).
And with my aging vision, a unit like my Garmin 60Csx is pretty hard to see while driving – apples and oranges I have realized. So I will someday get an auto GPS when they finally hit the right price point.
Haven’t looked at the Feisol yet, but I can testify for Gitzo – It’s been awhile but my last repair encounter (after a car wreck that bent a monopod) was handled perfectly with their lifetime, NQA no matter what it looks like. Great company back then.
OK, Here’s one of the Simms boots brought to you from Travis at Tailwaters Dallas, Texas.
It is interesting (in a good way) that this merchandise shows up in the local Mom & Pops before the big boxes.
Now, I am not a huge TFO fan, but ask when the heck they will step into the 21st century and have a decent working website that is web 2.0.
I would love to attend next years show, I might have to figure out a way to do that.
— New site is under construction. That’s why the old one looks so … old.
Your “carp crack” worked well earlier in the year for sure. I bought a few from Tailwaters. The other fly they have there, ugly as sin, that worked two days ago, was that gold metallic chenille with a red chenille tail sticking out of it. Super strange, but it was working.
Apparently, these have extra sting ray protection on the sides to prevent sideswipes. There was a pretty gnarly example of what flesh eating bacteria can do (after entering through a sting ray penetration) in a previous issue (Aug. ’09) of Texas Saltwater Fishing Magazine. This guy lived, but another guy died recently in a separate incident – from the bacteria in the Galveston area. I am guessing Simms is targeting those guys somewhat.
