Very dramatic color! Keep posting. Cheers, Christine On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:25 AM, "Bob W" <p...@web-options.com> wrote:
> Jesus of the Pylons. A very nice shot, well worth the wait. > > B > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Kevin >> Thornsberry >> >> To the best of my knowledge, I've never submitted a PESO. But today, I >> was testing a new scanner and pulled out an old notebook of slide >> sleeves from pictures I took in Brasil almost 30 years ago and came >> across this picture of Rio de Janeiro. It's not a great picture and I >> just happened to be at this location at this time so I can't even claim >> much intent, but it warmed my heart for a few reasons: >> >> 1) For some reason, I didn't originally care enough for the picture to >> remember taking it. The slide was a little darker than this which is >> probably the reason. Now I get to rediscover it. >> 2) It revived a memory. >> 3) I took it with my first "real" camera, my Pentax K-1000. Since >> then I've owned a P-3N, ZX-5N, *ist-D, K-7 and a K-5. I still love >> that K-1000 most of all even though the K-5 is a much more practical >> tool for my needs and entertainment now. I still love to hear the >> shutter of the K-1000. It has such a satisfying mechanical combination >> of a click and a clunk. The >> K-1000 now sits, retired, on a shelf over my desk, in a collection of >> things that are special to me. I bought the camera with a bag, flash >> and a >> 50mm/1.8 lens in 1982 from a guy entering journalism school which >> required everyone to have a specific model of camera. >> 4) I was too poor for a tripod so I know I took the picture handheld. >> >> So, for those of you who still hold that emotional attachment to your >> K-1000, or LX or ME-Super I'd like to share this oldie from my K-1000. >> >> http://thornsberry.smugmug.com/photos/i-6FCN7z5/1/X2/i-6FCN7z5-X2.jpg >> >> Kevin >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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.
