On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > I'm back at my friends' cabin in NC after another GFM Nature Photography > Weekend. At this point I've gone three days with fairly minimal amounts of > sleep and lots of physical activity and stress so this will be a necessarily > brief post. I need sleep now...
Yes you do. > > It was great to meet some new PDLMers face-to-face (John Sessoms, Ted Beilby > and Christine Aguila -- I never tire of meeting PDML people and I've never > met one I didn't like) and to see old friends again. All joking aside, I > think Doug Brewer must be a long lost brother of mine. Thankfully not a twin brother.:-) > > We got to play with cool new Pentax gear, including the amazing (more about > that later) K-7. John Carlson from Pentax is a really nice guy and a true > class act. I sent a PDML Photo Annual back to Colorado with him. That was a great idea Mark. > > The whole program at the Nature Photography Weekend ran more smoothly than I > can ever remember it doing in the past. And the standard of photography was > truly amazing: There were shots that missed the Honorable Mention this year > that would have been class winners last year. No kidding. So i have no hope in the future then. > > I was suffering through a cold for much of last week (though I was pretty > much back to full strength by Saturday), and between that and the weather I > missed my usual back country camp out. Some other time. I still got some > great shots on Thursday in the area along Route 221. Gallery on line soon. Can't wait. > > The contest awards presentation on Sunday (AKA "The Doug and Mark Show") > went pretty well this year. At least it started on time. > > We finished up with two members of the GFM team getting married at the > mountain! Tres cool. I thought Cotty and Cory were already married.?? > > I'll have a much more agonizingly-detailed report later. Until then, let me > finish up with a quote from Doug Brewer: "C'est fromage!" The brie is a bit runny. Dave > > I *really* need to sleep now... > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
