At about the same time Pentax was marketing some POS as the 'Official Camera of the Internet'. Such a ludicrous concept struck a chord with someone and our phalacrocoracic chums found themselves labelled the Official Bird of the PDML.
Bob > > Wasn't it a cormorant image photoshopped onto a magazine > cover that got it all started? > Who could have done such a thing? > Does anybody still have the original? > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Brian Walters > <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:16 +0100, "AlunFoto" > <alunf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We made landing at the Antarctic Peninsula the day after visiting > >> Deception Island. > >> Which shot to select for a PESO for today was quite self-evident. > >> Links shortened to preserve the fun. > >> > >> Blog: http://turl.no/6tp > >> Image: http://turl.no/6tq > >> > > > > > > > > Another fine photo from your Antarctic adventure. > > > > But I'm going to have to come clean here and admit that I > have no idea > > why cormorants are regarded as the unofficial (official??) > mascot of > > the PDML. I've been hanging around here for 6 or 7 years now and I > > must have missed something. Where did this fascination > with shags start? > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Brian Walters > > Western Sydney Australia > > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > > > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > > unladen european swallow > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
