I had a long day driving home on Monday. Thankfully, it wasn't as bad as the drive down the previous Wednesday. There was a delay of around an hour near Waterbury, CT due to a crashed tractor-trailer rig, but nothing as bad as the shut-down of I-81 on the way down.
It was a splendid weekend. It went by altogether too quickly. On Thursday Doug Brewer and I went out for a short photo session at Boone Fork on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I didn't get any new shots for the portfolio but there were a couple of keepers in the lot. I shot one and a half rolls of slide film in the 67 so it'll be a couple of weeks until I see how those worked out. On Friday Doug and I spent the morning writing our presentation for the evening (nothing like waiting till the last minute, eh?). But I got it all wrapped up by mid-afternoon. The Friday night contest pep talk was great fun. Oddly enough, a few people told us at the end of the weekend that it really helped them. Who'da think? On Saturday morning I led a hike up the mountain! Yay! Last year I let everyone off easy with a short ramble on the lower reaches of the Profile Trail to shoot some stream photos. Not this year. We went big and got all the way up to Attic Window Peak. I actually got four people to come along. Weather was splendid for hiking, too bright & sunny for nature photography. As usual I spent Saturday afternoon hunched over a computer loading contest entries onto the hard drive. But this year we gave the participants flash drives instead of CDs and it was *much* easier. Doug and I got the contest judging done on Saturday evening. No last-minute flail this year! Sunday was the usual festival of merriment with jokes, jibes and some award-winning photography. Big fun. If you missed it this year start planning to attend next year. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
