Mazel Tov! It's very good to hear your report; the only thing more satisfying, I'm sure, than the fact that you restrain yourself from telling these bozos off, is the triumphant rush of victory.
But what did you win? Micah On Feb 5, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Bill Sawyer wrote: > And with a Pentax!! > > The Detroit Zoological Society publishes a quarterly glossy for > it's 40,000 > plus members called "Habitat." Each issue has a themed photo > contest and at > the end of the year they award a grand prize winner for the year. As > camera-types like Zoos, they get several hundred submissions each > issue, and > the judging is done by the graphics firm that prepares the > magazine. This > year's Grand Prize winner is here: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5010343 > > Of course, it's mine, and I'm quite proud that I won the thing my > first time > entering a contest. Though the judges didn't know it, I'm a very > active > volunteer, and see a steady stream of Nikon, and worse, Canon, > users each > time I'm there. Too many, particularly of the latter, are strutting, > pretentious sots, camera club types, who seem bent on acting out some > fantasy of being serious photographers. Harsh language, I know, but > my job > is to engage them in conversation, and I get terribly tired of > smilingly > indulging that pretension. My revenge is the paragraph in the next > issue > that I get explaining that I shoot with Pentax, not Nikon nor > Canon, gear. > In this case with an ist D, and 180mm f 3.5 Sigma lens. Take that, > you > weenies!! > > BTW, in the past year, I've been seeing more and more Pentax bodies > amongst > the Nikons and Canons, where previously I saw none.... > > Bill Sawyer > Livonia, MI > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Micah Kleit, Executive Editor Temple University Press 1601 North Broad Street, #306 Philadelphia, PA 19122 215/204-3439; 4719 fax http://www.temple.edu/tempress -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
