Have you ever been out taking photos and spotted another person doing the same thing? I sometimes wonder - are they "one of us"? Or are they just photo-happy tourists? (Not that there's anything wrong with that).

 

So I was out today, and I saw this guy snapping pics but two things make me think he's not just a tourist:

 

1. The camera looked rather pricey

2. He was snapping pics of architectural details, rather than the "Kodak moment" shots.

 

Makes ya wonder...

 

 

i stumbled across little italy cleveland once in shaker square.

 

but yes, i've had this experience before.

Dude! That was me!

Prove it  :-)

Those pictures make you look very FBI MayDay.

Welllll, from time to time,  some of my friends ask me to help them stalk people. Not that I know ANYTHING about that!  :wink:

Its a terror :shoot: ist

 

:-D

Prove it  :-)

 

ok, when you weren't looking I quickly took this shot ... this was taken once you left the building ... ;)

 

Ugh, back in my fat days!  :-P

MayDay I have the same feeling all the time in Cincy.  When we were at the OTR Brewery Tour this weekend, I just started walking up to people and asking them, "Are you an Urban Ohio member" and I discovered forumer kramer, maximillian and OTRFan were on the tour and forumer BallHatGuy was the tour guide :)

Fat!?

MayDay I have the same feeling all the time in Cincy.  When we were at the OTR Brewery Tour this weekend, I just started walking up to people and asking them, "Are you an Urban Ohio member" and I discovered forumer kramer, maximillian and OTRFan were on the tour and forumer BallHatGuy was the tour guide :)

 

Did you pass out any of the UrbanOhio business cards?

"Fat!?"

 

Well, it was a few years ago, when I was living in suburbia (with my now ex) and not getting to the gym as much as I'd like. I gained an inch on my waist which was a little unsettling.

MayDay, I know what you mean

 

Suburbia + computer job = fat.  I need to shed some winter chub myself.

...I need to shed some 1990's chub myself...

...I need to shed some 1990's chub myself...

 

i'm still working on my baby fat

...I need to shed some 1990's chub myself...

 

i'm still working on my baby fat

 

I'm still working on my fetus fat.

 

Beat that, bitches.

I've been in this situation before, but rarely when I'm taking pictures myself.  It seemed to happen quite frequently when the 515 garage was going up. 

 

There were some college kids (undergrads, likely) in Playhouse Sq. last night around 10 snapping photos.  I figured they were in town for the MAC tournament, but then again, they were taking pictures of buildings, where I'd just assume that college basketball fans would be chugging beers at Panini's...

 

I did run into Mr. MayDay at a press conference for the Avenue District last fall.  Out of camera-shame, I had to hide my puny Canon Elf (which I'd borrowed from my girlfriend) when I saw his fancy camera coming.  He denied his Urban Ohio heritage...made me doubt myself...and then laughed at me when he realized I was feeling the fool!

 

jerk.

Hey now - that was my Minolta S414 which was only 4mp with 4x optical. And I didn't mean any harm - I just thought it would be funny to deny that I was "MayDay" - I mean, I did hurry up and 'fess up, didn't I? 

 

Sorry  :oops:

Did you pass out any of the UrbanOhio business cards?

 

I could use those.  They'd be handy to give to people when they ask "why are you taking picutres of my house?!".

 

@@@@@@

 

The only time this has happened was back when I started this both me and this girl where taking pix of the Stockyards Inn (in East Dayton) at the same time.

^In another thread, rich said to PM him with your mailing info and he would send some.

 

 

Because of this thread, when I was in Walden Books yesterday looking at the ohio history/old photo books, a man came and picked up the Cincinnati Transportation Images of America book by Allen Singer and I wondered if it was an UrbanOhioner, but didn't ask.

 

Anyone with a KOI hat around?

I'm sorry but this thread is hilarious.  You photographed a fellow Urban Ohioer (unknowingly) while he too was photographing a nerdy thing.  I love Urban Ohio...I will now be more aware and try to spot my fellow Urban Ohio users while we are doing our ground work.

 

This is just awesome:

The funniest thing that happened to me was when I was using a tape measure to position my camera precisely and some college guy came up and started measuring the parking lot I was taking a photo of with a nearly identical tape measure.  We exchanged awkward glances -- who was doing the more innovative theoretical work? 

 

>Yeah, I still need to work on the 20 or so pounds I've gained since I started drinking again last fall. I used to be 185-ish (I'm a large-framed 5'11", so I wasn't fat by any means), but now I am in the neighborhood of 205-210. Damn alcohol!! If there's one good thing I can say about taking Accutane 5 times (other than the fact it gave me a real chance in life), it's that the horrendous liver function it caused made drinking taboo. I may have felt like shit, but I was not fat like I am now. Alcohol has ruined my body! I drink til 3 in the morning, then have the mucnhies and order pizza or DP Dough. Damn Ohio University makes almost everyone flabby by the time they're upperclassmen. I envy the skinny, bright-eyed freshmen who have yet to learn that too much schoolwork and drinking leaves no time for exercise...

 

Quit ordering that crap.  Meanwhile my weight has not fluctuated at all despite stopping drinking almost entirely since leaving OU last fall.  I have had fewer than 30 beers since Thanksgiving.  I am not convinced that beer puts on much or even any weight because I had many 30-50 beer weeks in college and my weight never fluctuated outside 160-165lbs.  This gets back to an earlier conversation we had, where I contended that on the average night out people are burning 500+ calories from both walking and staying on their feet and then burning a bunch more just staying awake.  If you go out from 10pm-4am, that is 6 hours of pretty constant physical activity where you are burning at least 100 calories extra an hour.  Unfortunately a lot of people are completely undisciplined and eat ice cream and other childish food when they're drunk and don't even remember eating it the next day.  In Athens I'd always see those big horizontal striped shirt guys lined up at the "munch cart" outside Dale's BP ordering 2 or 3 chili dogs at 2am.  I hope you are not one of those guys.       

 

Rustbelt Paparazzi!

 

MayDay, was he stalking you?  It looks like he was taking a picture of you or you two were taking pictures of each other. 

 

I've had it happen to me before.  I went out around campus with my roomates camera to take pictures and there was somebody else going around taking pictures as well.  It was akward because he was more professional than I was, maybe a photography major judging by his camera, and he started to take pictures of what I was going to take pictures of.  It was akward because I didn't want him to think that I was stealing his idea.  But then it didn't matter because it ended up my roomates memeory card was full. 

 

I'll have to agree with jmecklenborg, it can't all be the beer.  I came to school weighing 170 pounds, now I am around 210 and I don't drink.  It's got to be the food.  Our dining halls are "all you can eat".  Besides, gaining weight is normal at our age and I don't really care to diet either. 

 

 

Actually I don't think he quite noticed me - note that his lens is pointed down (where he's standing is on the bridge in the Old Arcade) so he's likely snapping pics of people dining below.

 

Folks - trust me, your metabolism is in overdrive in college and then some time after, it hits an oil patch and skids off into oblivion. I never had to do crunches to keep everything in place a few years ago, and now if I forget to do them I feel like the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man!   :lol:

oh dear, I better start saving up for some size 40 pants then.  haha.  how old are you MayDay, you are in your late 20's early 30's correct?

Watch out INK, I just snap a shot of you in Middletown ;)

like the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man!   :lol:

I think you have a ways to go before that one.