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I find the whole 'MacGyver School of Thought' most useful in DIY projects and photography.
Photography shoots, in particular, are very much like an episode of MacGyver where you may only have a short window of time & associated prep work just to get you into position to get an opportunity for a successful outcome ..... or (as it were) rare shot of butterfly, bird, deer, rainbow or sunset.
How you set yourself up is make or break and analyzing the situation and improvising on the spot can be critical. Angles, lighting, positioning, weather conditions and camera control are the intangibles and analogous to Mac's technical dilemmas both in technical difficulty and real time stress. In other words - time sensitive, logistic conundrums.
When I first started photography, I would show up at a location, take a few snaps and leave. Later on, I would show up at a location, walk around for an hour, analyze every possible shooting scenario, then taken some snaps, and then leave. The 'MacGyver School of Thought' adds an additional level/dimension to this cerebral process .......
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Whether you think you can or you can't .... you're probably right!
"Nature often addressed our problems much better than the doctor." - Henry Miller
"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry." - Jack Kerouac
"No one is remembered for being normal" -- Albert Einstein
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QUOTE (Fellow Traveler @ 22 April 2015 - 02:12 AM) | Thanks for sharing this video. I will share this through my various social media channels because there's a lot of truth in there. |
Sure! I really like this guy. He's got some amazing videos.
"Walk in love. Walk in service. And you will walk in honor." (Good Knight MacGyver) "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein "What are ferrets made of? Happiness." Twitter ~ Twitch ~ YouTube
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So MacGyver was often written around doing the right thing, and like many TV series doing the right thing often brought its own rewards. Some religious people would invoke a higher deity, but as you know I am not overtly religious in any faith. However, despite that I’ve always tried to do ‘the right thing’ and have over the years handed in two full wallets, and a gold watch. I’ve also have my own full purse returned twice (I know, losing it once is chance, losing it twice verges on carelessness!) so maybe someone somewhere looks after me, I just don't know. So this morning I realise that last night in the sports hall I have lost my much loved Leatherman – I was waiting for my son and knitting a coat for one of our ex. Battery hens with lost feathers and needed to cut the wool. I phoned the hall – nothing handed in :-( Very, very disgruntled I take mum shopping for the day and we stopped for lunch in a food court. Enter two grandparents (GP’s) with toddler. GP’s possibly not quite as nimble as they might have been a few years back, loads of shopping bags. GP’s obtain toddler seat – how hard can it be to fit toddler in modern toddler seat? Hole for child obviously too small. So it’s ensuing behind me so I get up and manhandle the seat. Within moments discover trigger mechanism that completely removes table, click off, click on, click off. Suggest GP deploys child in seat, arms clear – yes, successfully deploy table child in place :-D GP’s then decide to eat at far side of eatery! So I c.b.a. to remove child so I manhandle seat with deployed child to chosen table, resplendent with appropriate brrmm, brrmm, car noises and leave happy family to their lunch. I go back to my table and as an off-hand comment say “well if him upstairs was watching, maybe I’ll earn some Brownie points towards getting my Leatherman back!”, OK, I’d have helped anyway, but…….
So I get home phone hall, still nothing found :-( I have to take kids out tonight, so decide to visit the hall and take reward poster. On the way I drop off kids and on the way back to the car I am walking behind mum with another toddler in the dark. Toddler obviously drops a tissue in the mud and starts crying when mum won’t let her have it back (all muddy and soggy) – toddler is obviously tired and whiney. I’ve got a new box of recently opened tissues in the back of the car, so announce to toddler, I can fix this terrible thing and would she like a brand new tissue? Box is duly procured with big fluffy white tissue tantalising positioned to be grabbed. Tissue is ripped forth with great enthusiasm, tears cease and I get a beaming smile for my trouble – def. worthwhile : -) Next stop the hall, hand in poster and ask lady if I might look where I was sitting on a bench when I lost the Leatherman. Can’t see anything on easy looking – well I’m here, hands and knees worth a try, there under the bench wedged almost invisibly in a ½” gap completely covered by the bench is the black pouch containing my beloved Leatherman. :-)
OK, so I’ll believe that weird things sometimes happen, but just on the off-chance I raised a nod skywards and said thank-you!! It all felt rather MacGyver!!
Has anyone else got a weird tale of coincidence to share?
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When you'r in a jam and you have to get something working or try to make something work, you have to use you'r surroundings. I had this super neat flashlight I loved it and then the wires tore off on the inside. So what I did we I found a used staple and wala it worked again. I always have those times were a Macgyverism comes to me so I have a few here and there.
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