Mission: Sodus Point, NY

Note: this post is really about a photo trip I took Saturday July 9^th, but I gotta say something first. Yesterday (7/12/11), I had some Homeland Security Dude find me (he literally drove until he found me down another street) to see what I was up to. Get this: What “they” didn’t like was when I was on a public bike path looking at a train trellis for less than TEN FURTICKIN' SECONDS, and never even took a photo. I never even raised the camera to my face.  I decided it looked stupid and didn’t want a pic of it. Wasn’t interested. Got in the truck. Drove away. The trellis and bike path were near the fence of a power plant, so I suggest closing the fluggin' bike path. Instead of letting people get close, and then pestering them, how about not letting people get close???!!! And then leave them the flork alone. Guy never identified himself, never showed a badge, or anything. He took my business card back to the office and checked the website to see if I was really a wedding photographer. If you’re gonna do your job, at least do it right. I demand a full cavity search and a free cigarette afterwards. GLUCK YOU!

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Real post: Well, we went to Sodus Point Bluffs on Saturday to snag some photos. The girls slept in the car while I drove two hours, drinking coffee and Gatorade and flipping off every third car. T-girl wanted our destination to be a surprise, so I just blindly followed the GPS directions like a robot. Don’t like the dude’s voice on the GPS. Sounds like those phone recordings: “Hello. Thank you for calling Dell Support Services. Please stay on the line and the next available low-paid technician who lives in India will be with you shortly to help ignite your frustration into pure rage.”

So, we get there, and all of us are already tired, even though I drank coffee and they slept in the car, and its 3pm. It’s hot and muggy in the sun, and in the trees are armies of Sauron’s Mosquitos, each wearing their own Ring of Power. By the way, I wish Joss Whedon had written and directed the Lord of the Rings movies. The Weta stuff is awesome, but it’s like the script was created by drunken stuffed animals in the back of a moving pickup using an old typewriter. K. Rant over.

Photos? Yeah, we got em. T-girl took pics of the bluffs. I got some shots in the woods, as well as losing my glasses, which I later found with the help of some bikini-wearing college students. Wow. Those boys were hot (yet so polite). I will add some photos to this post soon, but going on another photo mission today. Right after I get a coffee at Tim Horton’s.

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