When you’re an avid photographer, you always like to be prepared. It’s hard to leave home without a camera and a lens or two, let alone go on a long trip without all your gear. And being an avid photographer, you probably have accumulated quite a lot of gear. So, when you find yourself going on holidays to some other part of the world, you’re going to have to ask yourself: “What the hell do I take and what do I leave behind?”
Now, I must say I’m new to blogging and by no means am a professional blogger, this being my 6th blog post ever. But I have been reading blogs since forever and there’s something that really irks me about a lot of the commercial tutorial blogs, and that thing is the Unnecessary Adjective & Arbitrary Numbered List™.
The picture above has nothing to do with police motorcycle training but I thought it was funny. That’s a shot taken in Cambodia and it’s not an uncommon sight. We had a medium sized refrigerator delivered to our house by motorcycle once. Fun times.
Anyways, came across these two videos that I found interesting. One is of the French police doing their motorcycle training and the other is of the Japanese police doing theirs. Quite impressive.
Videos after the jump.
I thought it pretty funny that this episode of Top Gear ( UK ) that featured a race inside a shopping centre came out at about the same time as automotive websites published news that manufacturers weren’t happy with Top Gear Australia’s treatment of their cars.
Video and quotes after the jump.
Over at James5 there was a link to this article entitled “Airport Security” written by Jeffrey Goldberg. While I was reading it I did find it entertaining but afterwards when I thought about it I wondered what would happen if Mr Goldberg looked a little more “ethnic”? Would he have been able to do the things he did if he had looked Lebanese or Syrian?