Way to go Bill - congratulations! A really nice image. Nice subject, colors & composition. Well seen & captured.
As much as I enjoy my Pentax, its not the equipment, its the operator. Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Sawyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Holy Sureshot, I Actually Won Something... > 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
