Re: PUG Themes for 2016 - The Shortlist

2015-10-27 Thread David J Brooks
good list Dave On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > G'day all > > Here's the almost final shortlist: > > Golden Hour > In Silhouette > A Fork in the Road > Black and white > Iconic Places > Hands > History > World Photo Day > Reflection > Rush Hour > Tranquillity > Up > > Ther

Re: PUG Themes for 2016 - The Shortlist

2015-10-27 Thread Bob Sullivan
It's a good looking list Brian. Hands reminds me of Marnie's photos of her mom. Looking forward to participating. Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > G'day all > > Here's the almost final shortlist: > > Golden Hour > In Silhouette > A Fork in the Road > Black

Re: PUG Themes for 2016 - The Shortlist

2015-10-26 Thread ann sanfedele
Nice list ann On 10/26/2015 8:13 PM, Brian Walters wrote: G'day all Here's the almost final shortlist: Golden Hour In Silhouette A Fork in the Road Black and white Iconic Places Hands History World Photo Day Reflection Rush Hour Tranquillity Up There were several additional suggestions, as f

Re: PUG Themes for 2016 - The Shortlist

2015-10-26 Thread Brian Walters
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > By the way, Komkon appears to be down still. Yep. Igor is looking into it. If the problem persists, there is a contingency for the November PUG. I'm just holding off for a few days to see how things pan out. Cheers Brian

Re: PUG Themes for 2016 - The Shortlist

2015-10-26 Thread Mark Roberts
By the way, Komkon appears to be down still. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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 direc

PUG Themes for 2016 - The Shortlist

2015-10-26 Thread Brian Walters
G'day all Here's the almost final shortlist: Golden Hour In Silhouette A Fork in the Road Black and white Iconic Places Hands History World Photo Day Reflection Rush Hour Tranquillity Up There were several additional suggestions, as follows. I haven't included these in the above list but happy

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-10 Thread Bulent Celasun
How about "Unfinished" "Halves" "Into the dark" "The cut" ? Bulent - http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.p

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread John
I was thinking of "beyond reach" in terms of the Robert Browning quote you get at almost every graduation ceremony: “Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?” Call me naive, but FWIW, I don't know. On 10/8/2015 8:34 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: I like your vote John -

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread ann sanfedele
I like your vote John - except for "beyond reach" because ..well, you know :-) ann On 10/8/2015 7:45 PM, John wrote: My vote: * Golden Hour * In Silhouette * A Fork in the Road * Beyond Reach * Black and white * Iconic Places * Hands * History * Reflection * Rush Hour * Tranquillity * Up Wh

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread John
I thought we agreed last year not to have a "selfies" PUG theme? On 10/7/2015 10:56 PM, Darren Addy wrote: I think that "Butt-Ugly" would be an interesting theme. :) -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail L

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread John
My vote: * Golden Hour * In Silhouette * A Fork in the Road * Beyond Reach * Black and white * Iconic Places * Hands * History * Reflection * Rush Hour * Tranquillity * Up Whatever is finally settled upon, I'll give it a go. Not that I expect I'll be any more able to get my act together in 2016

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread ann sanfedele
We kinda did that once before Larry - but it was limited to other PDML'ers if I recall. although we may have done it for famous photogs too. send-ups could befun, tho ann On 10/8/2015 3:23 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Brian Walters wrote: G'day all Some suggested themes for 2016: -snip-

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread Larry Colen
Brian Walters wrote: G'day all Some suggested themes for 2016: -snip- Let me know if any of those appeal (or not) and feel free to suggest others. Cheers Brian I finally made it to the local photo club last night. And it turned out that at dinner I was across the table from a coup

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread Jack Davis
IOW, flattened "ugly butts" Igor? J - Original Message - From: "Igor PDML-StR" To: "PDML" Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 11:28:00 AM Subject: Re: PUG Themes for 2016 Can a copy machine [aka xerox] made by Ricoh be considered a Pentax camera? Jack D

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread Igor PDML-StR
That's a fair point. (And that's one of the reasons why I cannot watch most sitcoms -- all that use the forced background "laughter". But at the same time, aren't all cuttens absolute? ;-) Cheers, Igor On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:00 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: Yeah yeah -- Make fun,... but se

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Can a copy machine [aka xerox] made by Ricoh be considered a Pentax camera? Jack Davis Thu, 08 Oct 2015 09:57:12 -0700 wrote: I'd like to avoid the predictable bunch of ugly butts! J -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRI

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread Jack Davis
I'd like to avoid the predictable bunch of ugly butts! J - Original Message - From: "Darren Addy" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 9:43:55 AM Subject: Re: PUG Themes for 2016 For the record, I wasn't making any commentary (p

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread ann sanfedele
I knnooowww ann On 10/8/2015 12:43 PM, Darren Addy wrote: For the record, I wasn't making any commentary (photographic or otherwise) with my "Butt-Ugly" theme suggestion. I just thought it had lots of possibilities. :) :) On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:00 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: Yeah yeah -- Mak

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread Darren Addy
For the record, I wasn't making any commentary (photographic or otherwise) with my "Butt-Ugly" theme suggestion. I just thought it had lots of possibilities. :) :) On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:00 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: > Yeah yeah -- > Make fun,... but seriously - I think those adjectives should b

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-08 Thread ann sanfedele
Yeah yeah -- Make fun,... but seriously - I think those adjectives should be applied by the viewer after they look at a photo, since those things (funny, cute) especially (along with Butt-ugly) are so much a matter of personal taste- in a group such as ours with widely different backgrounds - sp

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-07 Thread Ken Waller
Hoiw about Wildcard ? Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Brian Walters" Subject: PUG Themes for 2016 G'day all Some suggested themes for 2016: * World Photo Day - this one was popular this year - wo

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-07 Thread Darren Addy
I think that "Butt-Ugly" would be an interesting theme. :) On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > > Ann, > Ghm... you prefer "nonhumourous" and "uncute"? ;-) > It's interesting that I had exactly the same reaction about the song one.. > > Brian, > I appreciated the sequence (proxi

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-07 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Ann, Ghm... you prefer "nonhumourous" and "uncute"? ;-) It's interesting that I had exactly the same reaction about the song one.. Brian, I appreciated the sequence (proximity) of some of the proposed themes, so I thought of a combined one: "tranquility at rush hour". And in a similar manner, wh

Re: PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-07 Thread ann sanfedele
I liked the challenge of World photo day - I just wish it were not in the middle of the summer. It was 2012 that we did the music thing? good grief, where has the time gone? Spare me the evaluative adjectives (humorous, cute) as subject matter please. But subjects like "wind" that have mu

PUG Themes for 2016

2015-10-07 Thread Brian Walters
G'day all Some suggested themes for 2016: * World Photo Day - this one was popular this year - worth doing again? * Songlines - Pick a Song or Piece of Music and make a photo to suit. We did this in 2012 - worth doing again? See here: http://pug.komkon.org/12jun/index.html * Golden Hour * This