Hi Rich,
--- In "Rich Peet" <>
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> Well, I might be a little different than most.
>
> Last year I recorded in Shoulder deep water, waist deep snow, thigh
> deep mud, and ankle deep "stuff".
>
> I also recorded in a capton's chair, from warm sands, while snoring
> from the back of a van to leaned up against a tree dozing. I
> recorded with a beer, a cup of coffee, a coke, and a few others.
>
> Last year I recorded with the most portable recorders in a shirt
> pocket to arrays it takes hours and hundreds of feet of cable to set
> up. I worked the best of equipment and some of the not so best.
>
> Last year I was confronted by the police,by theives, by a mental para
> in a wheelchair, by naked teenagers, by drunks, and by people just
> wondering what the hell that is.
>
> Last year for the third year in a row I was laid up with disease and
> spent time with clinics for things that find you in the field and you
> never even knew it.
>
> Last year I was helped by the most professional, the best amateurs,
> and the new just trying stuff new to them.
>
> It doesn't matter how you record nature just find a way to do it and
> go. In this part of the world no one looks sideways when you go
> fishing with a $35,000 bass boat and you didn't make that over the
> last year. Hand em mic and they think you spent the world on nothin.
>
> Last year I recorded a bunch of hours, over a bunch of miles, earned
> nothing at it, and had the time of my life. Hope this year is as
> good.
>
> Rich
Me too, and I wish you and everyone the best of all that is good this year too.
It is precisely the endless variety of circumstance and nature that makes
wildlife recording so enjoyable.
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