It's A Lesson in Pay-Back Form

Over the years, I have meet a lot of photographers that tend to get ID ed as 600MM or 200MM to 500MM. You get the point. You know them more by the glass on their camera than as the person that they are.

I ran into one of these guys a couple of days ago. He is an excellent photographer regardless of what type of equipment he uses.We had a more professional talk about photography than we have ever had beforehand. He said that he, ''was not a butterfly, hummingbird kind of person". I understand  that. He then said that he might have to change his lens and shoot some hummingbirds. He did not know about a couple of places where he could do that at the lake. He had just discovered one on his own, saying," I didn't even know it was there."

I gave him a light pat on the shoulder and said, "I know how hard that must be for you" as we went our separate ways. Today, it came back to me as a learned lesson in pay-back form.



I went to the bank this morning to pay the only bill that I actually write a check for and while the branch has had tons of issues in the past, today topped the lot. They had no tellers. The corporate cloud sent them one teller from another branch and  he was at lunch. It was a new concept-- how to run a bank with no tellers and two loan officers that were doing little to nothing except making excuses why this situation went on a Chick-Fillet-A minute by minute until the one teller returned from his Chick-Fillet-A lunch. It was truly an experience! Unbelievable, but still an experience like I have never seen before. As more customers came in with stunned looks on their face, The one loan officer that had been there since the branch opened said that they were trying to keep it open. I said to her, you are killing it!! She said that their managers were aware of the situation but were not doing anything about it. The other loan officer came up to talk to me and he said that today was his last day there. He was going to another branch. I can't wait until next month to see how this drama plays out in the world of finance.

After getting my deposit ticket I headed to the lake with the sole purpose of "changing my lens" which I have not done in eons. I did. I didn't like. I changed back to my long lens and shot a few more images to compare. Back at home when I edited the images, there were some things that I liked about the short lens, but a whole lots more that I like about the long lens. So the conversation that I had had with CJ a couple of days back was a hard learned lesson. It was like I could hear my own words in my head telling me,"I know how hard that must be for you".

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