And with a Pentax!! The Detroit Zoological Society publishes a quarterly glossy for it's 40,000 plus members called "Habitat." Each issue has a themed photo contest and at the end of the year they award a grand prize winner for the year. As camera-types like Zoos, they get several hundred submissions each issue, and the judging is done by the graphics firm that prepares the magazine. This year's Grand Prize winner is here:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5010343 Of course, it's mine, and I'm quite proud that I won the thing my first time entering a contest. Though the judges didn't know it, I'm a very active volunteer, and see a steady stream of Nikon, and worse, Canon, users each time I'm there. Too many, particularly of the latter, are strutting, pretentious sots, camera club types, who seem bent on acting out some fantasy of being serious photographers. Harsh language, I know, but my job is to engage them in conversation, and I get terribly tired of smilingly indulging that pretension. My revenge is the paragraph in the next issue that I get explaining that I shoot with Pentax, not Nikon nor Canon, gear. In this case with an ist D, and 180mm f 3.5 Sigma lens. Take that, you weenies!! BTW, in the past year, I've been seeing more and more Pentax bodies amongst the Nikons and Canons, where previously I saw none.... Bill Sawyer Livonia, MI -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
