You May Be a PADer If...

[khtaylor]

Geez, I thought it was just me. It's not even the PAD thing, it's photography in general. Here are my add ons:

1. You buy a $1300 camera to replace your $300 one because 3 seconds to boot up is TOO LONG.

2. You bring reading material for road trips so that you don't look at the scenery and become apoplectic because you can't stop to take photos of every interesting thing you're driving by (and the car windows are too dirty to take passing road shots!)

3. You carry your fat heavy camera everywhere including: The grocery store, public restrooms, laundromat, post office etc. for these reasons: Because you would NEVER leave your camera somewhere unattended (even in a locked car) and you never know what you're going to see inside those places which may require a shot. (well, maybe not the restrooms).

4. You can't go hiking with anyone who isn't also a photography enthusiast lest you get left behind entirely.

5. If you do happen to forget your camera on the way to the "insert any errand here," you're tempted to (and sometimes actually do) go back to the house to fetch it.

6. You're pretty sure your destiny is to die falling backwards over something precarious while trying to get a difficult shot.

7. You sleep with your camera by your bed so that just in case the light is perfect when you wake up and something you've never noticed before in your bedroom magically appears, you'll be ready. See sample here:

http://www.pbase.com/khtaylor/image/42105906/medium

At least we're all in good company!
P
Kimberley
p.s. lunch meat stuck to a window?! Haha!

[khtaylor]

The number one indicator that I have a photography problem is: I have over $3000 worth of photography equipment and a $400 (broken) car.

:OP
KHT

[kimkong]

You might be a PaD'er if ...

... you are having a bath with your camera...?

http://www.pbase.com/image/55829165

Kim

[aestus]

One more to add;

... if you buy your fiance a camera as a wedding gift in the hopes that s/he will stop bitching about you always stopping to take pictures!

p.s. I love you honey!

[ralf]

> (well, maybe not the restrooms).

[digitalgee]

You're pulled over for a speeding ticket, and you actually consider asking the cop whether he'd mind you snapping his picture for your PaD. This truly happened to me. Ugh!

[dirox]

OMG...these are so funny, yet TRUE! Here's a few...

You have a babysitter for your cam at work because you're too busy running around and stowing it in your locker seems inhumane.

You affectionately refer to your camera as your "cam".

All your colleagues ask you on a daily basis, "have you done your PaD yet?"

[jeremygood]

... you've had more than one fight with mall security about what you can take pictures of

... you stop going to lunch with your coworkers cause you have to cruise around with your camera looking for a photo opp

... your wife tells you that you have an ego problem because you take so many pictures of yourself

[donna_lear]

Ha! I thought about the cop thing when I was pulled over a while back for speeding. "Would you mind if I took your picture while you were handing me the ticket .. focused on your hand and the ticket while you were frowning in the background - face out of focus because, really Officer, I'd use a very shallow DOF on this!"
Verbal warning only - and .. I just didn't want to chance it becoming more than that by asking.

You know you're a PaD'er if ... after thinking about what a great shot something like that would make, you try to think of any police officer you know who might be willing to stage a fake ticket.

[dds]

Aren't *all* toilets objects of photographic potential?

-- When someone suggests you need a twelve-step program, you ask if you could photograph it.

-- I can stop any time I want ... really!

-- If you're a guy, you're annoyed that you can't figure out a way to make a self-portrait sexy instead of disgusting.

-- You swear you'll never take an SP of yourself with a camera up to your eye -- and then do it.

-- If you *do* take a me-taking-a-picture picture, you spend all sorts of time trying to reverse the camera name with extensive photoshop editing -- because reversing the entire image would be artistically unethical. Or, you spend all day trying to set up multiple mirrors for the shot.

-- You take your camera with you on your Valentine's Day dinner.

dds

[floradoragirl]

You might be a padder if

you don't start your valentine's dinner until you've taken a picture of the table setting

your boss calls you up at work and suggests a good subject for today's pad

your house gets burgled but the thieves DON'T get your D70 because of course you have it with you at the cinema, because you have it everywhere.

[ericvision]

You may be a PADer...

...if you ask your girlfriend if she thinks you'll ever manage 365 days straight with at least one photo worth keeping, and her answer is, "I hope not."

...if more people where you work know you're the guy with the camera than know your name

...if you can't go one month without buying a gift for your camera

...you are more likely to reply to private messages on PBase than to emails, letters, text messages from your friends and family in the "real world"

...you sit down at your computer and type http://www.pbase.com without thinking or looking, regardless of your motive for being at your computer

[1designguy]

You had 20/20 vision before you became addicted to Pbase

Your whole family (and all of the animals hide) when they see you carrying your camera

Your mood fluctuates with the speed and number of hits you get for each daily image

[clickaway]

....if you get frozen and sodden but you don't reallly mind cos other PBasers you meet are just as mad...