Congratulations, Bill! G
On Feb 5, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Bill Sawyer wrote: > 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
