[Little_PB_Newb]

Inspiring man, keep working at it and coming up with those new organic ideas.

[MutR.]

Jimmy, myself coming from a graffiti background, i LOVE those wheatpaste shots. It really takes balls to do what you did there.

[PbLoSeR05]

Originally Posted by p8ntcheck45

Where were you positioned to get this?

[Cmizzle]

[PbLoSeR05]

I didn't even take notice of the wake >.<

I saw the surfboard and was like.. Wut. Unless that's some fancy new wakeboard.

[p8ntcheck45]

Just a wake surfboard. My girlfriends dad is the CFO of Slingshot Sports (creator of that board, and many other kiteboarding/water sports products) so I had some people ride that board and snapped some shots of it for em

[StosPhotography]

connects... the way to go thru life lol nice shot!

[Little_PB_Newb]

Connections are really the best way to get places in photography, I've had a lot of jobs come up from knowing people.

[p8ntcheck45]

YEahhh! Which sucks about LA, feels like I know a lot of connected people, but I just love it up here too much.

Had my first gallery show today, went so well it was a great experience seeing people view my work and ask questions about it and be genuinely interested in what I created. Cool stuff Photos later

[Sabre]

Excellent, glad to hear it went well!

[jedi1354]

i was there the whole time. black buttondown and slack and a clipboard i looked official as assistant/bodyguard chubs.

[p8ntcheck45]

Had a bit of a tragedy a while back. My Canon 1DS Mark III was water damaged beyond repair due to accidentally being placed under a wet cloth. My 1d IV survived the same treatment due to having no cracks in the rear LCD, and not missing the small rubber, circular cover on the right side. I might be dumb enough ruin a $7000 camera, but not dumb enough to not have insurance. Thanks to TCP insurance, I will be able to replace my III in the very near future. I would suggest insurance to everyone who cares about their camera gear. They saved my tail! Kinda a bummer I put my gear in dangerous shooting situations weekly, and have never had any catastrophic damage while actually shooting. Just while half asleep and forgetting where my cameras were...:/ Either way, here are some photos of the carnage, enjoy!
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7 the sensor seems to be the only thing with zero water damage...

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I'll post the photos from my gallery show as well as my last few weeks of shooting later tonight!

[Grommzz]

That makes me so sad

[Little_PB_Newb]

all of that from a wet cloth? I thought it happened from falling in the lake or something..makes you question canon's "weather sealing"

[p8ntcheck45]

It was covered by a wet towel thing all night, and it sorta created a pool. The rear LCD screen had a small crack in it as well as the rubber plug on the side was missing and just taped shut. The 1d IV was undamaged and sitting right next to it.

[Little_PB_Newb]

oh nice, I got it messed up, it was the 50L that got pwned at the beach

[p8ntcheck45]

Photos!
Gallery show, had a couple hundred people through out the night

Girlfriends sister and friend

Kitboarding, tough as nails to shoot, still working on it, need to shoot more







Climbed up waterfalls and ****, barefoot!







bug life looked nice

[cp kid]

Originally Posted by p8ntcheck45

Had a bit of a tragedy a while back. My Canon 1DS Mark III was water damaged beyond repair due to accidentally being placed under a wet cloth. My 1d IV survived the same treatment due to having no cracks in the rear LCD, and not missing the small rubber, circular cover on the right side. I might be dumb enough ruin a $7000 camera, but not dumb enough to not have insurance. Thanks to TCP insurance, I will be able to replace my III in the very near future. I would suggest insurance to everyone who cares about their camera gear. They saved my tail! Kinda a bummer I put my gear in dangerous shooting situations weekly, and have never had any catastrophic damage while actually shooting. Just while half asleep and forgetting where my cameras were...:/ Either way, here are some photos of the carnage, enjoy!
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7 the sensor seems to be the only thing with zero water damage...
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I'll post the photos from my gallery show as well as my last few weeks of shooting later tonight!

Borrowlenses posted this story on their Facebook as well.

http://www.facebook.com/borrowlenses...50700068281084

[Cmizzle]

Pretty cool that they posted it.

lol at the nikon comment

[p8ntcheck45]

Yeah just saw that, cool stuff. Hoping insurance will pull through soon, just sent them the final stuff yesterday so we shall see

[PaintedSaint]

reminds me karl grobl
http://www.karlgrobl.com/EquipmentRe...shedCanons.htm

honestly it does the heart good to see a camera get beat to ****. Just shows the love more