Hi all, I finally got my copy!!!
It looks really good, I would say more finished than the first one. Hard to choose a favourite, too many good photos in so many different genres. As the one from last year, I'm enjoying it enormously -like I enjoy many good photography books that belong to my humble collection- starting with Doug's intro (in particular after the great nice surprise of seen my name there in the intro) up to the quotes (I like the non-PDML quotes addition, that one from Roger Ebert is phenomenal) and the whole design is not only functional (with the names on the side) but also attractive. Looks more and more that I won't be making it to Chicago, but at least I got to meet Ann in NY (and I got the Ann-Sanfedele-Gallery tour, a collection of her shots that remain in my memory). I've been swamped in work, and this time I accumulated a number of unrelated news: moved to a new place, my savings for the ever-elusive-printer ended up in a set of Klipsh speakers and a large plasma TV, got hooked up in collecting some classic movies (classic according to me), went back to my exploration of red wines (any Californian you can recommend?). And as every year the same pattern repeats itself in something that resembles a never ending cycle of photographic hibernation and renaissance, and now that summer is approaching, I find myself carrying my camera always with me once again (if I could just start pressing that shutter...) Anyways, is good to get the PDML Annual, in this tradicion that this second issue seems to be starting, these photos put me out of my recurring photographic hiatus, and remind me why I like photography so much. Pentax always reminds me of my father -whose Pentax camera outlived him- and by contributing to a cancer research organization I feel connected to the memories of my mother that passed away victim of that disease. Thanks to all the ones that participate by donating their photos and the team that puts this all together. This PDML annual is a reminder that is also good to enjoy photography as viewer, and as only photographers can do, by knowing how difficult is to get these shots, result of technical abilities, eye, readiness, and -specially in my case- mostly chance. -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:06 AM, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > The PDML annual was left on my doorstop this morning. I've just made my way > through it once. > > It's truly superb. Far better than last year's excellent volume. Kudos to > all the photographers, and all who helped put the book together. Doug has > written another excellent intro. And Mark. Wow! What can I say? The design > is outstanding, and the reproduction quality is exceptional. The collector > of quotes has obviously mastered the Blurb format. Excellent work. > > -- > 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. > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- 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.
