What I've Been Up To - Photo Thread

[urgeok2]

here's a fun one ..

A couple of years ago i was returning from a company event around 4:30 PM.
I was stopped behind another car who was making a left hand turn into a residence.
We had to wait quite a while because of the oncoming traffic - so we were probably there for 90 seconds or more.

All of a sudden i found myself being thrown around the van ..
my seat broke and i went back…my cameras and lenses were flying around (i had them out because i had recently stopped to shoot a landscape)

There was no warning - no tires squealing …
the guy in the little car hit me dead on - no attempt to stop. He could have seen me a half a mile away stopped - but for some unknown reason he just plowed into me.
He made a last second attempt to swerve - hitting me 3/4 - driving me into oncoming traffic - if i hadn't hit the car in front of me i would have been hit by oncoming cars.

i had a sore neck and a scraped arm but was otherwise unharmed - until i punched my car when i saw the camera gear all over the inside of the van. (amazingly - nothing was damaged - just a slightly cracked lens hood)

the van was deemed beyond repair - so now i have another one - black - a couple of years newer.

never found out what happened to the idiot behind me but the police was pretty sure he was getting charged.

[hammerfan]

He was probably texting while driving. Idiot. Glad you weren't hurt badly! And your camera equipment!

[Elvis_Christ]

Damn that was lucky you weren't thrown into traffic!

I was waiting on a bus to work and I noticed a bunch of people driving and not paying attention. My favorite was a guy steering with his knees while eating McDonald's

[newb]

I'll agree with the texting......people are idiots. I was behind some dude a couple of years back, and he was swerving all over the road. As I pulled next to him it get away from what I was sure was drunk, I noticed he had a newspaper on his steering wheel.....the fucking idiot was reading the newspaper at 70 MPH

[urgeok2]

I see people texting every day on the way to work. I try to pull up beside them and honk

The worst part of my accident is that I had to work the next day - then drive to Cleveland for a convention where I was shooting Linnea

Luckily the insurance company had a loaner for me right away
I had a bit of a delayed reaction though - about 90 min into our shoot Saturday night, Linnea says - youre looking white - and we stopped because I was feeling off
Fine the next day though

[urgeok2]

Shot something new today - what my kid just started doing ….

[urgeok2]

More Iphone pics .

me being a crazy cat lady

[MarthaLou]

Just loves those kitties!!!

[urgeok2]

The Directors.

I might have posted a couple already - and forgive me for being in a bunch of these - the sight of myself makes me wince - but i wanted to have all of these in one place together ..

[urgeok2]

part 2