Originally posted by egordon99 If you mean "Flip" as sell this lens that will not happen. Having spent todays holiday shooting with this particular lens. It is truly a magnificent piece of glass. This lens will permanently be in my camera bag until I leave this wonderful world. Then you guys can fight over it as a possession.
I live in an area on the east side of Detroit called the Grosse Pointe's. Estate sales from the aging population of these very wealthy communities are very common place. The term Estate sale is equivalent to the term Tag Sale.
Each Saturday morning I awake at 4 am make my coffee and take a 3 mile run by the lakeshore drive with my 3 year old yellow Labrador. It is one of the joys in my life to photograph this magnificent animal joyfully play on the newly formed sediment beaches in the early morning light of day. Of course that is during the late spring, summer and early fall in our area of this place we call planet earth.
I usually arrive back home around 5:45 am then head to the most promising estate sale. I arrive at the location around 6 am and grab a number for entrance to the sale. Then wait for the doors to open usually around 8 am. Socially I redundantly see the very same people in the number line, some who look for rare fine china, some Remington castings and the like, some old weapons and war memorabilia, and some who seek photographic equipment.
There is a very ruthless estate sale guy named Walter who is at most sales I visit. It has been a well known fact the Walter and I dislike each other very much. Most of the regulars that are in the early number line are aware of this. If Walter arrives ahead of me in line somehow an entrance number lower than his is forwarded to my hands and somehow I get ahead of him in line. Walter and I go after the photographic equipment. None of the regulars really care for Walter. They know I go only for Pentax specific.
So that is what my Friday and Saturday mornings have consisted of for the last 17 years.
On Saturdays my husband and kids usually are slowly removing themselves out of their bedrooms when I arrive home around 9 or so. When they see a broad smile on my face they know I found something special. We all go to the dinning room table and inspect the lot I have purchased and brought home. These are pretty special happy and joyous moments of sharing with my dearest loved ones in my life. I would not trade this lifestyle for anything that is in place on this earth.
In another thread I mentioned how I found a set of lenses one of which I had always wanted and had been seeking over the years a SMC Pentax-F* 300mm F4.5 ED [IF]. That set was found at an Estate Sale of a photographer and filmographer whom worked with a man called George Pierrot who hosted a local program called the " World Adventure Series" at our Detroit Institute of Arts. It took quite some doing but we found out about the man who owned this equipment and his work.
At that sale Walter very greedily grabbed a very nice tripod and set of umbrellas, I grabbed an old ragged camera bag. I am still pissed about the tripod he knocked me on the floor to get it.
So for those who suggest the integrity of my postings on this subject , now you know a bit more of what I am about.
Could someone in the forum please help me get by a "port" problem so I can post my images. Every time I try I get a pop up message that "port 1090 is blocked for firewall security"
I have only been on the internet in regards to photography since the advent of my K10D for about a year now and am still learning. In whole I have been on the internet for about two and a half years.
Sincerely,
Wendy