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|| SportsShooter.com: Member Message Board Photographer gets blasted by canon at Texas Jay Janner, Photographer Austin | TX | USA | Posted: 10:52 PM on 09.06.09 ->> It's a funny picture, but it probably wasn't funny to him. I hate that cannon. http://budurl.com/fv62  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (1) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Jay Janner, Photographer Austin | TX | USA | Posted: 11:00 PM on 09.06.09 ->> Um, that's cannon, as in artillery, not Canon Cameras. D'oh!  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Pat Farrington, Photographer Ft. Collins | CO | USA | Posted: 11:00 PM on 09.06.09 ->> Thank God for earplugs.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Scott Serio, Photo Editor, Photographer Colora | MD | USA | Posted: 12:00 AM on 09.07.09 ->> Note orange fluffy things in ears...definitely a photographer who has been hornswaggled by the cannon before!  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Jack Kurtz, Photographer Phoenix | AZ | United States | Posted: 12:05 AM on 09.07.09 ->> Still it's kind of funny that a Nikon shooter got blasted by a cannon and shot by a Cannon (check the credit).  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (1) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Mark Peters, Photographer Highland | IL | USA | Posted: 12:32 AM on 09.07.09 ->> Jack - Check the exif. Nikon shooter blasted by cannon, photographed by Cannon with a Canon.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Brad Barr, Photographer Port St. Lucie | FL | USA | Posted: 11:04 AM on 09.07.09 ->> the girls name was cannon....not the camera shooting it...  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 11:08 AM on 09.07.09 ->> Years ago (I don't want to admit how long) at a UT game the Horns were close to scoring. I took a spot right in front of Little Smokey (the cannon at the time) and one of the guys came over and suggested I move out of the way because it would be loud. I slid over a few yards but anther photographer knelt in the same spot I had been. Before they could warn him the Horns scored and the cannon fired. That poor other guy keeled over sideways onto the ground. Little Smokey fired 4 black power shotgun shells so the percussion was pretty good. It was actually quite humorous.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (1) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Ron Erdrich, Photographer Abilene | TX | USA | Posted: 12:43 PM on 09.07.09 ->> Yeah, Jay. Up here there are a couple of schools that use freight train air horns. I don't always notice them until it's too late. It'll make you jump right out of your skin, yikes! -Ron-  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 12:47 PM on 09.07.09 ->> Not the best place to stand, even with ear protection.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions William Maner, Photographer Biloxi | MS | USA | Posted: 1:10 PM on 09.07.09 ->> I know the feeling well.. Before I go any further, let me say that I have a 95% hearing loss in both ears. Last year was my first year to shoot games after a 10-year hiatus as a personal caregiver. I went to the old college stadium to shoot a game. I wasn't aware that the college Army ROTC shoots off a cannon. It's not on the field, so you can't see it.. It's hidden away in one of the openings between the stands in the end zone.. After the home team scored a touchdown, the cannon went off. I could barely hear it, but the shock waves shook me.. It was one of those moments where you wished you were wearing Depends...  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Kolman Rosenberg, Photographer Mentor | OH | USA | Posted: 1:55 PM on 09.07.09 ->> Similar situation with the Cleveland Air Show. No canon, but the Thunderbirds or the Blue Angels, whichever group is performing. Most of the show takes place running east/west along the shore of Lake Erie, but every year, one run, by one of the single jets comes from the South, from behind the city skyline and scares the s##T out of everyone! You know it's going to happen, but you never quite know when and nobody ever catches it photographically because it happens so fast! You'd have to skip the rest of the show and just wait for that shot in order to capture it. It's an extremely low altitude fly-by and everyone jumps out of their skin. I was shooting the show yesterday and missed it completely!!  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Jack Megaw, Student/Intern, Photographer Pittsburgh | PA | America | Posted: 3:25 PM on 09.07.09 ->> Somebody must have given him the earplugs - which would mean that he would have known about the 'canon' - so why would he stand there? (I wonder if he's saying the same thing right now?)  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions William Maner, Photographer Biloxi | MS | USA | Posted: 3:36 PM on 09.07.09 ->> Kolman: I know the feeling.. The USAF Thunderbirds performed at the open house/air show of our local AFB in April.. Those practice runs were loud!! When I hear about jets being loud and flying low, I always think about George C. Scott's line in the movie "Dr. Strangelove".. When the President asks him if it's possible for a jet to get through the Soviet air defense network.. The response of Scott's character, General Turgidson: "If the pilot's good, see, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... oh you oughta see it sometime. It's a sight. A big plane like a '52... varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!"...  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Matt Brown, Photographer Fullerton | CA | USA | Posted: 3:43 PM on 09.07.09 ->> Another plus is he might have had some kidney stones broken up.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (2) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Patrick Meredith, Photographer, Assistant Austin | TX | USA | Posted: 5:32 PM on 09.07.09 ->> That thing rocked my world last year as I ran past it for the first time ever. I'm glad no one got a picture of me in front of it though...Anyone find out who this is?  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Paul Nelson, Photographer Temperance | MI | USA | Posted: 12:59 PM on 09.08.09 ->> Well one way to get the cannon off the field (or relocated) is to run into it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMovOYqp7nA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KiG5nngdbE One of the Toledo players ran into it and broke it, rendering all media safe for the time being... It's since been repaired and moved to a location off of the field for everyone's safety.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Thomas B. Shea, Photographer Pearland/Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 1:35 PM on 09.08.09 ->> You think they they would have told him to move.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Doug Holleman, Photographer Temple | TX | USA | Posted: 1:47 PM on 09.08.09 ->> Last year I got blasted point blank by some moronic humongous air horn contraption at a high school playoff game. And then he kept on blasting it far longer and more frequent than was appropriate. I really felt like kicking that guy's ass. And he was an older guy. Probably near deaf himself. I'll take the canon over that insidious evil thing any day.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Add your comments... If you'd like to add your comments to this thread, use this form. You need to be an active (paying) member of SportsShooter.com in order to post messages to the system. NOTE: If you would like to report a problem you've found within the SportsShooter.com website, please let us know via the 'Contact Us' form, which alerts us immediately. 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