Amita and Nate, Tom and Susan, and Scott joined me in Philadelphia last weekend. Things got off to a bumpy start, with Tom's camera dying on the first frame (see his lament on his short people-photographer career), and the brewpub that had cheerfully taken my reservation two days before being closed for an event.
No matter. We wandered a few blocks to the Independence Brewpub for lunch, then through Reading Terminal Market (a large indoor farmers' market), nibbled at the edge of Chinatown, and then up the Ben Franklin Parkway with a stop at the Rodin Museum. The weather was perfect, the fountains were flowing, people were playing, and flags were fluttering. Saturday evening Amita, Nate, and Scott cavorted at the Irish Pub. Sunday morning A&N headed back to New York to amuse themselves packing for a move to a new apartment, while Scott and I wandered the narrow streets of the Washington Square neighborhood, shooting and talking. We parted after an excellent lunch at a cafe's sidewalk table shortly after noon. The pix are here: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=510956. Photo.net annoyingly displays photos in reverse order, so start at the bottom! They're not great art, but great art wasn't the point! It was really fun to be able to link real people to names on the list, talk about all sorts of stuff, and try out cameras and lenses I don't have. Cheers, Rick P.S. If anyone cares, the pix were taken with my PZ-1p on Elite Chrome 100, mostly with either a 24-90 or an 80-320, and scanned with little if any manipulation. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
