haha this is the best lolcat I have seen yet!

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The Samurai. This is what I consider the Pro shooters. The know how to use their gear, and they understand that the percieved “gap” in focal lengths when you have just a few primes can usually always be made up by taking a step back or forward. The standards camera and lens kit of the Samurai is a Pro or semi pro Digital SLR with a fast wide to short telephoto zoom (28-70mm f2.8) along with a small external flash, and a fast prime or two for those low light situations where flash usage is not possible. I like to equate the 70-200mm zoom to their Katana, and 28-70/104mm being the Wakizashi, with a fast 50mm Tanto.

The Ninja. Or to put it another way, the artist. This person goes out with a minimal amount of gear, usually a single prime lens coupled to a small SLR or rangefinder. The photographic equipment is merely a tool to them, and they use the minimal amount of gear possible to get the shot. They depend less on technology, and more on agility and stealth in their search for perfect light. Street photographers fall very comfortably into this category.

I found myself typically the “samurai” stage in my photography currently. I did have all the lenses in the focal range. (17-40L, 24-70L, 70-200L) Now I sold both my Lenses and settled for my 50mm f/1.8MKI, 17-40L and my 24-105L IS. I find this a lot better for the type of shooting I love doing but more and more I yearn to be a Ninja.

I was reading the Tao of Photography and I found myself wanting something small, and unnoticeable. Something I can carry everyday and enjoy my photography. Which I still feel a slight emptiness in me. Oh well, the hunt for the perfect solution continues…

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Millions of people think they’re smart because of one thing - witty comments. They think their jokes make them some of the smartest people in the world.

All people hide the bad parts of their personalitys & bad people do it better. It benefits people to modify their personality for everyone they know. Your enemys & friends will sound exactly the same when you’re around, but who’s really your friend?

Most friends judge each other like investments & never realize it. When someone stops being profitable they stop wanting them as a friend.

Most of intelligence is just admitting what you don’t know.

Most conservative philosophy just means purposely forgetting we’re all born randomly. Really life is like a coin flip where any of us could’ve been the starving child worker.

People like me aren’t saying sweatshops should be banned - we’re saying people should treat others like they’d want to be treated.

It’s so hard to get intelligent advice that it’s usually not worth asking - most musicians know nothing of music, most politicians know nothing of history, & most people know nothing of life.

Don’t think someone won’t hurt you because nobody could be that bad, millions of people make their livings stealing from others. If they spent their life lying as a salesman how bad is any other lie that makes them money?

The nicer someone is the less you should trust them.

Watching all the TV scams you’d get the idea that half the country is just trying to scam people, eventually you’ll realize real life is exactly the same.

There’s a good chance that everyone you ever meet will betray you. Everyone’s “friends” are there when it’s fun, but will they disapear when you need them?

And finally, the most obvious advice of all that *no one* in history has ever listened to:

_______________Don’t try to change people.
_______________If you argue you’re telling them who to pretend to be.
_______________Don’t waste five minutes.
_______________If they think you’re useful they’ll lie to you for 90 years.

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