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I just wanted to say Hello! (I'm a new member)
Tod Gomes, Photographer
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Pleasant Hill | CA | USA | Posted: 7:55 PM on 05.10.11 |
->> Hello SportsShooter.com members! I am a new member here and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Tod Gomes and I am based in Pleasant Hill, CA (40 miles east of SF). I have been a full time photographer for over 8 years now and I got PPA certified 2 years ago.
I look forward to contributing to this website/message board and interacting with you all.
That's All... |
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Jim Colburn, Photographer, Photo Editor
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 8:07 PM on 05.10.11 |
| ->> Golly gee! Hello there! Welcome! |
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Sam Santilli, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 9:29 PM on 05.10.11 |
| ->> Hola! Please feel free to post and comment on other posts here. If you get a Huh? or Inapprpriate, do not worry, there are few members (very few) who like to rule the roost but do not contribute to meaningful thought on the MB. Welcome and please be active, we do not hear enough from the left coast. |
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David Welker, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Springfield | MO | USA | Posted: 10:40 PM on 05.10.11 |
| ->> Welcome Tod. I hope you enjoy your stay. |
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Luke Johnson, Photographer, Student/Intern
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St.Petersburg | FL | USA | Posted: 11:43 PM on 05.10.11 |
| ->> Welcome to Sports Shooter Tod. Be sure to stay on the look out for Liddy, I heard he bites. |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 12:18 AM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> Tod if I'm not mistaken you just broke the record for receiving the fastest inappropriate. Welcome to the fold. Please keep your hands inside at all times and do not feed the animals. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 12:20 AM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> geez, the dude's been on sportsshooter for all of four hours and someone smacked him with an inappropriate? GOOD TIMES!!!!! |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 12:44 AM on 05.11.11 |
->> Hi Tod. I'm just south of you in San Jose.
--Mark |
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Kent Nishimura, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Honolulu | HI | USA | Posted: 1:41 AM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> Tod, Aloha from Hawaii! |
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Bryon Houlgrave, Photographer
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San Diego County | CA | USA | Posted: 2:35 AM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> Inappropriate? Someone out there doesn't like introductions. I wonder if that person hates kittens and homemade cookies too. |
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Radu Rosca, Photographer
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Tirgu Mures | MS | Romania | Posted: 3:42 AM on 05.11.11 |
->> Welcome aboard Tod!
Somebody here's sure loves sarcasm, haha :) |
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Martin McNeil, Photographer
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London | London | United Kingdom | Posted: 5:39 AM on 05.11.11 |
->> Bryon,
It's the unwritten rule: as professional photographers, we shouldn't speak to each other, make eye contact, be in the same room etc. ad infinitum - and heaven help us if we should share some knowledge or insight with those whom we should only think of as our competitors!
On that logic, introducing yourself to another photographer - either in person or online - is merely the first step on the slippery slope to failure and poverty. |
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Michael Fischer, Photographer
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Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 8:00 AM on 05.11.11 |
->> Welcome Tod. I'm 1804 miles east of you. Feel free to drop in for a cup of coffee when you're in the neighborhood. :)
Liddy doesn't bite. He just doesn't like stupdity...which keeps him busy on here sometimes...
Michael |
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Michael Pina, Photographer
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SF Bay Area | ca | usa | Posted: 9:25 AM on 05.11.11 |
->> Welcome Tod. We all hope that you will find this site to be helpful and hilarious at the same time. You may want to remove your physical address to keep your location protected. Past issues have shown that most of us remove it after being approved as a member. Good luck and take everything with a grain of salt.
Cheers, Michael |
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Jim Colburn, Photographer, Photo Editor
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 10:46 AM on 05.11.11 |
->> "You may want to remove your physical address to keep your location protected"
Gotts watch out for those Ninjas. |
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Richard Uhlhorn, Photographer
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Chelan Falls | WA | USA | Posted: 10:58 AM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> Welcome Tod... You will find Sportsshooter to be a valuable resource for anything sports photography wise. Congrats on the inappropriate. |
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Scott Serio, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Colora | MD | USA | Posted: 11:29 AM on 05.11.11 |
->> Good lord, an inappropriate? C'mon, at least his first post wasn't...
1. How do I get hired by AP?
2. How do I get credentials to THE BIG GAME?
3. What is the scret handshake?
Welcome....
And BTW Tod, those three questions are the third rail of Sportsshooter...BEWARE. |
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Jim Colburn, Photographer, Photo Editor
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 2:48 PM on 05.11.11 |
->> "What is the scret handshake?"
And never make a spelling error.
Ever. |
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Tod Gomes, Photographer
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Pleasant Hill | CA | USA | Posted: 3:19 PM on 05.11.11 |
->> Thanks for the welcome everyone! Looks like a fun group of photographers! Also, looks like a lot of Left Coast responses.
To the person who slapped me with my first inappropriate, TY! Made for some GREAT convo! I am honored!
Physical address will be changed
LOVE the sarcasm!
I'll keep an eye out for Liddy (I may even bite back).
How can anyone not like Kittens and homemade cookies (well, I can see not liking kittens)
AP? Not yet, working on it.
The Big Game? not yet, working on it (got past NFL and MLS creds, but still have questions and comments on this subject).
Secret Handshake... Aboola Aboola Aboola Da HA! Aboola Aboola Aboola Da HA! (Trading Places reference (hope I painted a picture for you)). |
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 4:43 PM on 05.11.11 |
->> Tod ... what won't get you a job with AP ... is an "inappropriate" secret handshake at the big game ... just remember to wave using ALL your fingers ... ;-)
Welcome to SS .... |
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Andrew Fielding, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 4:58 PM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> Welcome to the fold Tod! |
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 4:59 PM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> "The Big Game? not yet, working on it (got past NFL and MLS creds, but still have questions and comments on this subject)."--- Easy, my friend, you're walking out on the gangplank. The sharks are circling... |
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Jim Colburn, Photographer, Photo Editor
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 7:34 PM on 05.11.11 |
->> "Looks like a fun group of photographers"
Oh boy does he have a lot to learn... |
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Pat Lovell, Photographer
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Bloomington | IN | US | Posted: 9:14 PM on 05.11.11 |
->> I have a feeling someone gave Tod an inappropriate because they thought he misspelled his own name when joining... forgetting the second D in Tod.
Welcome Tod, start walking backwards slowly on the plank and forget the words credentials, big game, AP and handshake. They are never to be used when starting a topic.
Ever. |
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Michael Granse, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 10:01 PM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> The Force is strong with this one. |
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Luke Johnson, Photographer, Student/Intern
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St.Petersburg | FL | USA | Posted: 10:11 PM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> I still want to know the handshake to become a credentialed AP photographer for the big game.... (Just Kidding) |
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Tod Gomes, Photographer
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Pleasant Hill | CA | USA | Posted: 11:28 PM on 05.11.11 |
| ->> Haha funny Patt! (0; but you may want to check out THIS website www.todwithoned.com (I swear, it's not my site). |
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Pat Lovell, Photographer
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Bloomington | IN | US | Posted: 8:06 AM on 05.12.11 |
->> Very funny Tod! Who would have thought there would be a website dedicated to that.
Congrats on your first few "funnies" after your "inappropriate" in this post. |
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Eileen Blass, Photographer
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Kennett Square | PA | USA | Posted: 8:43 AM on 05.12.11 |
->> And, Tod with one d, if you use too many exclamation points, you're gonna get smacked! But seriously, a warm welcome to you! Just kidding about the exclamation points ;).
Smiley faces aren't allowed either :) |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 9:45 AM on 05.12.11 |
->> A lot of times this board resembles a neighborhood bar, with different groups of regulars in different corners of the bar. Some grumpy half wasted guys at the end of the bar, rambling incoherently. Couple of mean looking dudes playing pool. Group of guys watching the game on TV. A sales guy in a frumpy suit on his third bourbon. An expressionless bartender...
So imagine a stranger walking through the front door of that bar and announcing, "I just wanted to say hello!"
I think the reaction would be similar...along with some peanuts being heaved in that general direction...:-)
(Welcome Tod! Sit down...have a drink...) |
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Scott Evans, Photographer
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Bay Village | OH | USA | Posted: 10:18 AM on 05.12.11 |
| ->> Welcome for sure Tod (from the other coast). Don't worry about the kittens and cookies, we all love both, just not served on the plate. Peace. |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Southern California | CA | USA | Posted: 3:43 PM on 05.12.11 |
->> There was a great disturbance in the "force" when this thread started as a collective cry of "Douche" went out upon reading the title of this thread.
Welcome to the "Neighborhood Bar" |
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Jim Colburn, Photographer, Photo Editor
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 4:01 PM on 05.12.11 |
->> "...kittens and cookies, we all love both..."
Liar.
I love cookies, but not kittens, because kittens just grow up to be cats.
Puppies, on the other hand, grow up to be dogs and dogs rock. |
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Daniel Goncalves, Photographer
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Jacksonville | FL | USA | Posted: 3:11 AM on 05.17.11 |
| ->> Welcome Tod. |
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