Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Sorenson
Never trust a guy with a beard... :>] -p On 2/5/2014 12:00 PM, Stanley Halpin wrote: It is the bearded ones that cause trouble. stan -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNS

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Paul Stenquist" Subject: Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman On Feb 5, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: Bob W wrote: -Original Mes

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Stanley Halpin
Sent: 05 February 2014 16:35 >>>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> Subject: Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman >>>> >>>> On 2/5/2014 10:28 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>>>> Bob W wrote: >>>>> &

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2014-02-05 Thread Bob W
> -Original Message- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts > Sent: 05 February 2014 16:54 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman > > Bob W wrote: > > >>

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Feb 5, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Bob W wrote: > >>> -Original Message- >>> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P.J. Alling >>> Sent: 05 February 2014 16:35 >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob W wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P.J. Alling >> Sent: 05 February 2014 16:35 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman >> >>

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2014-02-05 Thread Bob W
> -Original Message- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P.J. Alling > Sent: 05 February 2014 16:35 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman > > On 2/5/2014 10:28 AM, Mark Roberts wro

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2014-02-05 Thread P.J. Alling
On 2/5/2014 10:28 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: Bob W wrote: I found a snapshot in my loft of Abraham Lincoln and John Lennon when they were the house band on the Titanic. Abraham Lincoln: Worst bass player ever. But a great Bass fisherman by all accounts... -- A newspaper is a device for making

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob W wrote: >I found a snapshot in my loft of Abraham Lincoln and John Lennon when they >were the house band on the Titanic. Abraham Lincoln: Worst bass player ever. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread P.J. Alling
Don't sell yourself short Bill, some of your photos can always be used as horrible examples... Since I never destroy any image I shoot, at least not on purpose, I expect that my hard drives, should anyone be bored enough to bother, will supply a lot of; "WTF did he take a picture of that for?"

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Feb 5, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Miserere wrote: > On February 5, 2014 9:39:15 AM EST, Paul Stenquist > wrote: >> >> On Feb 5, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Mark Roberts >> wrote: >> >>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> I think some of Vivian Meyers images are nice, but many are very >> ordinary. I th

RE: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Bob W
> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts > [...] > > No one could have guessed at the time it was taken that that snapshot of > Anne Frank (which is even more banal than anything Vivian Meyers > took) would have become one of the icons of the 20th century. > Countless

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Miserere
On February 5, 2014 9:39:15 AM EST, Paul Stenquist wrote: > >On Feb 5, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Mark Roberts >wrote: > >> Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >>> I think some of Vivian Meyers images are nice, but many are very >ordinary. >>> I think she got a lot of attention in part because it was a “garage >f

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Feb 5, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> I think some of Vivian Meyers images are nice, but many are very ordinary. >> I think she got a lot of attention in part because it was a “garage find.” >> A trove of unknown work from a mysterious source. > > Even

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Roberts
Paul Stenquist wrote: >I think some of Vivian Meyers images are nice, but many are very ordinary. >I think she got a lot of attention in part because it was a “garage find.” >A trove of unknown work from a mysterious source. Even assuming your statement is true, that would be precisely the poin

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Darren Addy
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > I think some of Vivian Meyers images are nice, but many are very ordinary. If you come across a photographer for whom this statement is NOT true, please let us know. We are almost only ever aware of what the photographer thinks of as their b

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2014-02-04 Thread Bob Sullivan
Amen to that Paul! Of course you and I were here in Chicago when Vivian Meyers was shooting... On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > I think some of Vivian Meyers images are nice, but many are very ordinary. I > think she got a lot of attention in part because it was a "garage

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting Mark Roberts : Bill wrote: Very few people are actually interested in this sort of stuff. Often I think they have better mental health. The people I truly wonder about are the ones who have their files backed up six ways from Sunday, like as if at some point in the future people will

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Bob W
> On 4 Feb 2014, at 19:05, Bill wrote: > >> On 04/02/2014 12:06 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> [...] > Perhaps I'm a bit of a heretic, but really, most pictures are almost always > of little more than passing interest, even to the person who took them, are > generally boring, and are not worthy o

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Bruce Walker" Subject: Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Bill wrote: On 04/02/2014 9:09 AM, Charles Robinson wrote:

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
I think some of Vivian Meyers images are nice, but many are very ordinary. I think she got a lot of attention in part because it was a “garage find.” A trove of unknown work from a mysterious source. Paul On Feb 4, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Can you say 'Hello Vivian Meyers' > >

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2014-02-04 Thread Bruce Walker
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Bill wrote: > > My pictures are probably a poster child for unimportant images. Mark! > Perhaps I'm a bit of a heretic, but really, most pictures are almost always > of little more than passing interest, even to the person who took them, are > generally boring, a

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2014-02-04 Thread Bill
On 04/02/2014 12:06 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Can you say 'Hello Vivian Meyers' You could also say "Hello" to many, I am sure, millions, of people who's imagery is as unimportant as a cold dog turd. My pictures are probably a poster child for unimportant images. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:50 A

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Bob Sullivan
Can you say 'Hello Vivian Meyers' On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Bill wrote: > >>Very few people are actually interested in this sort of stuff. Often I >>think they have better mental health. The people I truly wonder about >>are the ones who have their files backed up six

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread John
On 2/4/2014 10:34 AM, Bill wrote: On 04/02/2014 9:09 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: I was thinking the same thing: 1,000 photos over 5 years. And do you suppose she'd ever downloaded any of them to a computer? "Nah, I'll just keep them here on the camera so I can share them with people when I m

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Mark Roberts
Bill wrote: >Very few people are actually interested in this sort of stuff. Often I >think they have better mental health. The people I truly wonder about >are the ones who have their files backed up six ways from Sunday, like >as if at some point in the future people will actually care about

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Bruce Walker
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Bill wrote: > On 04/02/2014 9:09 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > >> I was thinking the same thing: 1,000 photos over 5 years. And do you >> suppose she'd ever downloaded any of them to a computer? "Nah, I'll >> just keep them here on the camera so I can share them

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 4, 2014, at 09:34 , Bill wrote: The people I truly wonder about are the ones who have their files backed up six ways from Sunday, like as if at some point in the future people will actually care about their boring pictures. > Hey, I resemble that remark. -Charles -- Charles Robinson

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Bill
On 04/02/2014 9:09 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: I was thinking the same thing: 1,000 photos over 5 years. And do you suppose she'd ever downloaded any of them to a computer? "Nah, I'll just keep them here on the camera so I can share them with people when I meet them". I don't get it

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-04 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 3, 2014, at 21:16 , knarf wrote: > Of course the camera was no longer in working condition, but still an amazing > story. > > 1,000 pix over 5 years? Geez, Larry shoots that much in a night of swing > dancing (but only posts 500 of the good ones). LOL! > I was thinking the same thing:

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-03 Thread knarf
Of course the camera was no longer in working condition, but still an amazing story. 1,000 pix over 5 years? Geez, Larry shoots that much in a night of swing dancing (but only posts 500 of the good ones). LOL! Cheers, frank Darren Addy wrote: >... & 1065 images returned to their rightful owne

Re: Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-03 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Now THAT is good publicity. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > ... & 1065 images returned to their rightful owner. > http://petapixel.com/2014/02/02/lake-tahoe-fisherman-pulls-long-lost-camera-finds-5-years-photos-st

Pentax camera "caught" by Lake Tahoe fisherman

2014-02-03 Thread Darren Addy
... & 1065 images returned to their rightful owner. http://petapixel.com/2014/02/02/lake-tahoe-fisherman-pulls-long-lost-camera-finds-5-years-photos-still-intact/ >From Yahoo's Odd News today (via PetaPixel). -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photo