You are absolutely right, Doug, Cory did coin (pun intended) the PESO. Shel had earlier suggested the PAW (photo a week) an idea which I believe he got from the Leica Users Group (LUG).
Good ol' Shel. He rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way but I liked him a lot, even though it was his nasty comment that was referred to much earlier in this thread as going way beyond a critique, becoming a personal attack. I think the whole affair led to his leaving the list. I should look him up one of these days, see how he's doing. cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Doug Brewer <[email protected]> Sent: November 29, 2011 11/29/11 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Promoting the PUG, and the list On 11/28/11 10:49 PM, Mark C wrote: > / > /I don't know what ever happened to him, but a grand PDML'er named Shel > Belinkoff once posted that we all talk about photos but never actually > share them and suggested that we post a picture every so often - and > thus was born the PESO, GESO, etc tradition. His comment sparked a > fantastic change to the list, back when. Shel used to also diss on > nature photography, often commentating that the greatest technical skill > that nature photographers achieved was using a long exposure to blur > moving water. He used to piss me off but I miss him - does anyone knoe > what he is up to these days? Pretty sure it was our Cory Waters that spawned PESO. Don't know what happened to Shel, though. > > As far as the PUG goes - it did arise in the days when it was hard to > get your photos on line. I was the third (? I think) pugmeister back in > the early 00's and it truly was a vehicle to help people get their work > online. KomKon was enormously generous to give us bandwidth and a > platform back then, then it was really not cheap to get your own website > and public forums like flicker were still a glint in the internet's eye. I guess nobody read the foreword to the most recent PDML book. It described the early days of the PUG accurately, if not factually. Best as I recall, it was, in PUGMeister chronological order: Me, Steve G., Me, then you. > > Mark C > -- 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.
