On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wanted to say big thanks to Stan, Dave S., Marnie, Bong, Bob W., Cotty, > Subash, Derby, Paul, William, Fernando, Ken, Rick, Joseph, Bob S., Godfrey, > & Dave B for your very kind remarks, and tell everyone a very short > story--one I told a PDMLer I met over the holidays: > > After buying the K10D, I googled the Pentax name & saw the acronym PDML. I > clicked the link &, of course, was taken here: http://www.pdml.net/ When I > saw that photo, I thought to myself, "what the heck is that?"
Thats my hat i designed a few years ago. I stared at > it for a good, few, long seconds, and decided trouble lurked behind that > photo. To my female eyes, the photo had a shadowy, voyeuristic, maleness to > it that I thought best be avoided; I convinced myself that some degree of > pornography lurked behind that photo, so I trotted off down the internet > highway. > > Then a month or so later while at the Pentax site, I saw the PDML link, and, > of course, thought, "Geeze, Pentax wouldn't associate with a dodgy site, > would they?" No, but we do/.:-) and off I went back to the PDML link with renewed > curiosity--and I am so glad I did--my life would be so different--I would > have missed out on some great photographic fellowship. True, but i would have saved my self a LOT of money if i had passed this by.:-) Dave > > Big cheers, Christine > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan Halpin" > <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:28 PM > Subject: Re: GESO Street Portraits > > >> Nice! >> >> On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone: >>> >>> 1) The point of this exercise was to shoot closer & engage with people >>> more, which really doesn't come naturally to me. For the bit of street >>> stuff I've done, I have used the DA* 50 - 135mm, which obviously allows for >>> greater distance between the camera & subject--as you know--sorry about >>> stating the obvious here :-). I found shoot close really hard at >>> first--and I was so nervous, but folks who were out and about today were >>> cheerful & very willing. This helped. >>> >>> 2) There's a bit of irony to this shoot: I had to kill 2 hours on the >>> street because I had to wait for new prescription lenses to be mounted on >>> my eye glass frames, which left me with no glasses! It was really >>> disconcerting to shoot without glasses. Thank the gods for autofocus :-). >>> My distance vision is not what it used to be, but it's not that bad, but if >>> I had had to manual focus, there's no way I would have hit the focus. >>> >>> http://faculty.ccc.edu/caguila/Shooting%20Closer%20Street% >>> 20Portraits/index.html >>> >>> Comments/critique welcome. >>> Cheers, Christine >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> 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 >> [email protected] >> 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
