I'm back at my friends' cabin in NC after another GFM Nature Photography
Weekend. At this point I've gone three days with fairly minimal amounts
of sleep and lots of physical activity and stress so this will be a
necessarily brief post. I need sleep now...
It was great to meet some new PDLMers face-to-face (John Sessoms, Ted
Beilby and Christine Aguila -- I never tire of meeting PDML people and
I've never met one I didn't like) and to see old friends again. All
joking aside, I think Doug Brewer must be a long lost brother of mine.
We got to play with cool new Pentax gear, including the amazing (more
about that later) K-7. John Carlson from Pentax is a really nice guy and
a true class act. I sent a PDML Photo Annual back to Colorado with him.
The whole program at the Nature Photography Weekend ran more smoothly
than I can ever remember it doing in the past. And the standard of
photography was truly amazing: There were shots that missed the
Honorable Mention this year that would have been class winners last
year. No kidding.
I was suffering through a cold for much of last week (though I was
pretty much back to full strength by Saturday), and between that and the
weather I missed my usual back country camp out. Some other time. I
still got some great shots on Thursday in the area along Route 221.
Gallery on line soon.
The contest awards presentation on Sunday (AKA "The Doug and Mark Show")
went pretty well this year. At least it started on time.
We finished up with two members of the GFM team getting married at the
mountain! Tres cool.
I'll have a much more agonizingly-detailed report later. Until then, let
me finish up with a quote from Doug Brewer: "C'est fromage!"
I *really* need to sleep now...
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