Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo
On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Ken Waller wrote: On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Ah the U P, Pictured Rocks, White Fish Point, Porcupine Wilderness state park, The Keweenaw peninsula, Seney NWR, and Houghton, the jump off point for Isle Royale N P. Regret not having gotten there when I lived in Michigan. Maybe I should try, but my means are limited, and the Smokies, and more recently Northern Arizona, have been calling out to me lately. Some great spot there also - but ya gotta seek em out. I talk to alot of native Michiganders that haven't been to the U P. Yeah, that's what makes UP-ers think about secession. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Ah the U P, Pictured Rocks, White Fish Point, Porcupine Wilderness state park, The Keweenaw peninsula, Seney NWR, and Houghton, the jump off point for Isle Royale N P. I try to get to the U P as much as I can. I did 7-8 trips with the pilot car company in 2008 from Jan-April, but only had time to shot from the truck window. Dam truckers did not want to stop.:-) Here is a shot after crossing the Mackinaw bridge to the UP. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6910576 Dave Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Ken Waller wrote: The UP is a different place. Especially the western part ! My experience is actually limited. Mostly along the Lake Huron shore. Considered a job once that would have involved me in work related to Les Cheneaux Islands. Think I've only gotten as far west as Marquette. No experience of Keweenaw, which I gather is very scenic. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo
On Feb 25, 2011, at 10:31 AM, David J Brooks wrote: I did 7-8 trips with the pilot car company in 2008 from Jan-April, but only had time to shot from the truck window. Dam truckers did not want to stop.:-) Here is a shot after crossing the Mackinaw bridge to the UP. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6910576 Well that's an interesting shot of the UP. [But then, as you said, you had no time to stop.] -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Stan Halpin wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan That is the Mackinac Bridge, btw, yes? I think that's my favorite shot of the set. ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Ken Waller wrote: - Original Message - From: Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo Regret not having gotten there when I lived in Michigan. Maybe I should try, but my means are limited, and the Smokies, and more recently Northern Arizona, have been calling out to me lately. Some great spot there also - but ya gotta seek em out. I talk to alot of native Michiganders that haven't been to the U P. The passport is just so $#%%@* expensive! stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo
Nice shot Dave. I've go to get me one of them DA 16-454 lenses . . . stan On Feb 25, 2011, at 10:31 AM, David J Brooks wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Ah the U P, Pictured Rocks, White Fish Point, Porcupine Wilderness state park, The Keweenaw peninsula, Seney NWR, and Houghton, the jump off point for Isle Royale N P. I try to get to the U P as much as I can. I did 7-8 trips with the pilot car company in 2008 from Jan-April, but only had time to shot from the truck window. Dam truckers did not want to stop.:-) Here is a shot after crossing the Mackinaw bridge to the UP. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6910576 Dave Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Ken Waller wrote: The UP is a different place. Especially the western part ! My experience is actually limited. Mostly along the Lake Huron shore. Considered a job once that would have involved me in work related to Les Cheneaux Islands. Think I've only gotten as far west as Marquette. No experience of Keweenaw, which I gather is very scenic. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Yes, that is the bridge. On Feb 25, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Stan Halpin wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan That is the Mackinac Bridge, btw, yes? I think that's my favorite shot of the set. ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo
I've driven through once east to west, once west to east, but hadn't spent any time there before this weekend. I'll be back. stan On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Ah the U P, Pictured Rocks, White Fish Point, Porcupine Wilderness state park, The Keweenaw peninsula, Seney NWR, and Houghton, the jump off point for Isle Royale N P. I try to get to the U P as much as I can. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Ken Waller wrote: The UP is a different place. Especially the western part ! My experience is actually limited. Mostly along the Lake Huron shore. Considered a job once that would have involved me in work related to Les Cheneaux Islands. Think I've only gotten as far west as Marquette. No experience of Keweenaw, which I gather is very scenic. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Some especially nice bird shots, Stan. The older coupe partially covered by snow is a stand out. I wonder if it's a crop and if you have enough room to move it from near dead center. Also, if it were shot from further to the right it would balance off with the tall center tree in the background. Jack --- On Wed, 2/23/11, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: From: Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info Subject: GESO - Birding in the Soo To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 7:49 PM Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Thanks Jack. I am afraid the keeper ratio on the bird shots was pretty low but I am pleased with those I did get. The coupe-in-snow is cropped, but not too heavily. There is a shrub just to the right, with one branch intruding into the uncropped image. (And so I couldn't have moved to the right to take the picture as I would have been looking through more branches.) I took four shots, minor variations in how much foreground was included, how much surround was included. The one that allowed me the best crop (wherein there was some room on the right in front of the car) also had a pickup truck on the road in the rear. stan On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Jack Davis wrote: Some especially nice bird shots, Stan. The older coupe partially covered by snow is a stand out. I wonder if it's a crop and if you have enough room to move it from near dead center. Also, if it were shot from further to the right it would balance off with the tall center tree in the background. Jack --- On Wed, 2/23/11, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: From: Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info Subject: GESO - Birding in the Soo To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 7:49 PM Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 Wow. Lotsa great catches, and such a variety of species in the dead of winter. Lots that I liked, but really liked number 13. The UP is a different place. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 Wow. Lotsa great catches, and such a variety of species in the dead of winter. Lots that I liked, but really liked number 13. The UP is a different place. Especially the western part ! -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo
On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Ken Waller wrote: The UP is a different place. Especially the western part ! My experience is actually limited. Mostly along the Lake Huron shore. Considered a job once that would have involved me in work related to Les Cheneaux Islands. Think I've only gotten as far west as Marquette. No experience of Keweenaw, which I gather is very scenic. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I like 1 4 6 17 and 20. Dave On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo
Ah the U P, Pictured Rocks, White Fish Point, Porcupine Wilderness state park, The Keweenaw peninsula, Seney NWR, and Houghton, the jump off point for Isle Royale N P. I try to get to the U P as much as I can. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Ken Waller wrote: The UP is a different place. Especially the western part ! My experience is actually limited. Mostly along the Lake Huron shore. Considered a job once that would have involved me in work related to Les Cheneaux Islands. Think I've only gotten as far west as Marquette. No experience of Keweenaw, which I gather is very scenic. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo
On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Ah the U P, Pictured Rocks, White Fish Point, Porcupine Wilderness state park, The Keweenaw peninsula, Seney NWR, and Houghton, the jump off point for Isle Royale N P. Regret not having gotten there when I lived in Michigan. Maybe I should try, but my means are limited, and the Smokies, and more recently Northern Arizona, have been calling out to me lately. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: GESO - Birding in the Soo On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Ah the U P, Pictured Rocks, White Fish Point, Porcupine Wilderness state park, The Keweenaw peninsula, Seney NWR, and Houghton, the jump off point for Isle Royale N P. Regret not having gotten there when I lived in Michigan. Maybe I should try, but my means are limited, and the Smokies, and more recently Northern Arizona, have been calling out to me lately. Some great spot there also - but ya gotta seek em out. I talk to alot of native Michiganders that haven't been to the U P. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
GESO - Birding in the Soo
Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Some nice pics. Is 7124 a warbler? Paul On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Stan, Great stuff. Mostly birds I've only seen in the field guides! Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I like these especially http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316/h1c1aea9a#h16a1d6f9 http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316/h1c1aea9a#h2f483ec http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316/h1c1aea9a#h12fd3f23 Looks like a fun trip ann Stan Halpin wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Thanks Paul. Good question about 7124. The birders were trying to spot hoary red polls which had been reported at this feeder. No red polls to be seen here, common or hoary, and the caravan moved on. Since I wasn't occupied in looking for birds that weren't there, I took a few shots of the birds that were there. This is one. In other shots of the same bird, when he was facing away, there is more clearly yellow in the wings. In my National Geographic Field Guide to Birds - Michigan, it kinda looks like it might be a yellow-rumped warbler but it is the wrong time of year for it to be that far north and I suspect it is something else. stan On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Some nice pics. Is 7124 a warbler? Paul On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Thanks Ann. Yes, it was fun. Frustrating due to the gusty windy cold conditions, but we had excellent trip leaders and good people on the trip. stan On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:09 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I like these especially http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316/h1c1aea9a#h16a1d6f9 http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316/h1c1aea9a#h2f483ec http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316/h1c1aea9a#h12fd3f23 Looks like a fun trip ann Stan Halpin wrote: Some senics and bird shots from my weekend in Michigan's Eastern UP . . . http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p19156316 I briefly discuss the trip in the last couple of posts in my Posterous blog: http://smhalpin.posterous.com stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
