Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Christine Aguila
Hi Doug and all dear PDML friends! I really enjoyed reading this history of PDML! Thanks, Doug, for taking over PDML. It’s greatly appreciated. Your generosity led to a lot of great friendships, photography camaraderie, travel, improvement of skills, a PDML exhibition, sharing of photo

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Bill
Those were the days, I'll tell you. Whowhowho can forget mafud, or greene, or how many other aliases did he have? I even still had some hair back then. bill On 02-Jan-21 12:26 AM, Doug Brewer wrote: sort of. During the Christmas season of 2000, while I worked on a museum project for a

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Alan C
What a story. Long before my association with the PDML. Well done, Doug. Alan C On 02-Jan-21 12:26 AM, Doug Brewer wrote: sort of. During the Christmas season of 2000, while I worked on a museum project for a local university, I got a call from Don Nelson, a friend and Pentax sales guy some

Re: PESO - Gingerbread house and church

2021-01-01 Thread Alan C
Amazing. Those are works of art. And no doubt you will actually eat them? All the best for 2021. Alan C On 02-Jan-21 12:45 AM, Rick Womer wrote: My wife and daughter made the gingerbread bits yesterday afternoon, and we spent the evening assembling and decorating them:

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread mike wilson
> On 01 January 2021 at 22:26 Doug Brewer wrote: > > > I still can't tell you how I got it going, but here we are, and I'm > grateful for it. > > Happy New Year, kids. So, even though you're a dead-ringer for said Sergeant, you're actually Santa? Works for me and I'm also exceptionally

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jan 1, 2021, at 4:18 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > * > > I guess it's better than being a kumquat. kumquatly and don’t make a fuss. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- PDML

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * I guess it's better than being a kumquat. On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 6:17 PM mike wilson wrote: > > > On 01 January 2021 at 22:26 Doug Brewer > wrote: > > So, even though you're a dead-ringer for said

RE: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread jcoyle
And a huge thank you for taking it on and keeping it going, Doug. Where would we be without you? John in Brisbane -Original Message- From: PDML On Behalf Of Doug Brewer Sent: Saturday, 2 January 2021 8:26 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jan 1, 2021, at 2:26 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: > > > The next day, the nice woman in marketing called to tell me that the guy who > worked at the advertising agency that handled the Pentax USA website and was > the only one there who knew the list software and how it interfaced with the

Re: PESO - Gingerbread house and church

2021-01-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Nicely done and nicely photographed. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 5:46 PM Rick Womer wrote: > My wife and daughter made the gingerbread bits yesterday afternoon, and we > spent the evening assembling and

Re: PESO - Gingerbread house and church

2021-01-01 Thread Bob Pdml
Now you have to go into the forest, dark and deep, to lure some lost children for fattening and roasting and eating. > On 1 Jan 2021, at 22:46, Rick Womer wrote: > > My wife and daughter made the gingerbread bits yesterday afternoon, and we > spent the evening assembling and decorating them:

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Bob Pdml
Thanks. If it’s any consolation, since you’ve been fixing the holes it’s been getting better all the time, even without a little help from your friends, and we didn’t notice that the lights had changed. You never know what you have within you; without you we’d be Fanqued. I imagine the nice

PESO - Gingerbread house and church

2021-01-01 Thread Rick Womer
My wife and daughter made the gingerbread bits yesterday afternoon, and we spent the evening assembling and decorating them: https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2021/January-2021/Gingerbread/i-ffTh5SK/A (K-5, DA 17-70, tripod) A healthy, happy, and prosperous new year to all! Rick -- PDML

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks for 20 great years. I had been subscribed for less than a year I think and didn’t want to see it go away. You saved the list, and my memory may be faulty but I don’t recall a lot of hiccups. Well done sir Paul > On Jan 1, 2021, at 5:27 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: > > sort of. > > During

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Rick Womer
Doug, I started with the Pentax group on CompuServe in the mid-1980s, using a Mac II and dial-up modem in the lab. I am ~very~ grateful that Don, and then you, have kept things going. I have had fun and learned a lot. May all of us, and the list itself, have a safe and prosperous 2021. Rick

Re: It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I am also grateful that, despite all reason, you stepped up and took over! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 5:26 PM Doug Brewer wrote: > sort of. > > During the Christmas season of 2000, while I worked on a

Re: A Journal of the Plague Year

2021-01-01 Thread Bob Pdml
> On 1 Jan 2021, at 21:33, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 31/12/20, Bob Pdml, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> Pix from 2020. If you follow me on Instagram you'll have seen most of >> them. It's rather a large set unfortunately - 120 pictures, but it's >> been that sort of year. >> >>

It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

2021-01-01 Thread Doug Brewer
sort of. During the Christmas season of 2000, while I worked on a museum project for a local university, I got a call from Don Nelson, a friend and Pentax sales guy some of you will remember from GFM. He told me that Pentax USA, which carried the PAML and PDML on its website, was looking to

Re: A Journal of the Plague Year

2021-01-01 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 31/12/20, Bob Pdml, discombobulated, unleashed: >Pix from 2020. If you follow me on Instagram you'll have seen most of >them. It's rather a large set unfortunately - 120 pictures, but it's >been that sort of year. > >https://adobe.ly/2JwXrGr Great set Bob. You'r really getting into the

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread John
Right back at ya. It appears I have survived 2020 after all. I hope all y'all have as well. Hope 2021 is better for you and for me. On 12/31/2020 21:12:48, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Веселый новый рӱк Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

PESO: 2021 arriving at full speed

2021-01-01 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/2021-maechtig-in-fahrt-fotoralfbe/44700585 Enjoy Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

PESO 2020 - 281-My Last Photo of 2020 - GDG

2021-01-01 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Happy New Year to all! My Last Photo of 2020 - Santa Clara :: https://flic.kr/p/2knUdJx And may it be a year of health, good will, and healing in the same measure that the last was not! Be well, stay sane, endure and prosper! G — If you're afraid to fall down, you'll never stand up. --

Re: PESO 2020 - 281-My Last Photo of 2020 - GDG

2021-01-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Joy indeed! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 10:48 AM Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Happy New Year to all! > > My Last Photo of 2020 - Santa Clara :: https://flic.kr/p/2knUdJx > > And may it be a year of

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Not our Annie! Please, be a gentleman, or at least try to impersonate one. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 11:03 AM Bob Pdml wrote: > Bonne année! > > Or, as we say in English, bone Annie! > > -- PDML

Re: The Most Striking Images of 2020

2021-01-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
Interesting array of photos from 2020.  It's always good to get a international flavor to the images.  Also, don't miss the following article on Vivian Maier and the exhibit of her images in Amsterdam. -p On 1/1/2021 9:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Actually, it is more like Danish, mixed with a bit of Norman French. Arguably, the first great masterpiece of English literature is Beowulf, which takes place in Denmark with places and persons familiar to most English of the time. Again, arguably, the greatest work in the English Language is

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Bob Pdml
> On 1 Jan 2021, at 15:53, Boris Liberman wrote: > > [...] > > My favorite podcast at the moment is "The History of English Language" ( > https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/episodes/). I'm presently at about > episode 51. This is extremely interesting. My French friends assure me that

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Boris Liberman
Daniel, I noticed the letter "ӱ" which is not part of the Russian alphabet (due to two dots above the letter). So I realized it wasn't Russian, but rather some other Slavic language. I will now go on to wikipedia and look it up. It stands to reason that there are many words between our languages

The Most Striking Images of 2020

2021-01-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201203-the-most-striking-images-of-2020 Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Alan C
Very interesting, Dan. You & Tom Selleck, hey! Alan C On 01-Jan-21 05:09 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Thanks, Boris! I don't know if you noticed, my greeting was in Rusyn (Ruthenian) rather than Great Russian. We are a tiny and obscure ethnic group, now living mostly in Eastern Slovakia and

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Boris! I don't know if you noticed, my greeting was in Rusyn (Ruthenian) rather than Great Russian. We are a tiny and obscure ethnic group, now living mostly in Eastern Slovakia and Western Ukraine (and the US). We are known more for good looks than brains: Sandra Dee, Robert Urich,

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread ann sanfedele
easy for you to say... ann On 12/31/2020 9:12 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Веселый новый рӱк Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * -- ann sanfedele photography https://annsan.smugmug.com https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Henk Terhell
De beste wensen voor 43x47! Henk Op 2021-01-01 om 03:12 schreef Daniel J. Matyola: Веселый новый рӱк Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Subash Jeyan
புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள். On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 21:12:48 -0500 "Daniel J. Matyola" wrote: > Веселый новый рӱк > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > * -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Alan C
Baie dankie almal en 'n Voorspoedige Nuwe Jaar. Alan C On 01-Jan-21 11:49 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 01.01.21 um 10:04 schrieb Toine: Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! Ein frohes neues Jahr. Une bonne nouvelle année. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher  -  Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog  :

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 01.01.21 um 10:04 schrieb Toine: Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! Ein frohes neues Jahr. Une bonne nouvelle année. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de --

Re: kitchen paisley with fauxlarization

2021-01-01 Thread Toine
That reminds me of the liquid slide light shows from the 70s. Pink floyds Meddle etc. I tried that myself putting inkt and oil between a slide frame with glass and 35mm slide projector. On Fri, 1 Jan 2021, 08:12 Larry Colen, wrote: > >

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Toine
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! On Fri, 1 Jan 2021, 03:13 Daniel J. Matyola, wrote: > Веселый новый рӱк > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > * > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Larry Colen
Happy new year every one. I hope it sucks less than last year. > On Jan 1, 2021, at 12:31 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > > С новым годом! С новым счастьем! I kind of liked Dan’s when google translated it to Cheerful new pk Times like this I wish I had a pig named Samech. > > On Fri, Jan 1,

Re: Happy New Year

2021-01-01 Thread Boris Liberman
С новым годом! С новым счастьем! On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 04:13 Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Веселый новый рӱк > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > * > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net >