Re: Week 2 PDML Photo Annual Update

2018-01-18 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Well, I bit the bullet, looked through my files, picked three images I like, and submitted them to the Annual. Counting mine, there are now 45 images from 18 submitters. I am looking forward to what should be a very fine edition. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On

Re: PESO: Spider Family

2018-01-18 Thread Alastair Robertson
Anne's right. Dave's photo is of the cellar spider https://en.m.wikipedia. org/wiki/Pholcus_phalangioides It is a true spider but does look a bit like some of the harvestmen with long legs. This illustrates the problems of common names like daddy-long-legs - the same name can be applied to a

Re: PESO: Spider Family

2018-01-18 Thread David Mann
On Jan 19, 2018, at 5:57 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: > Always called them "Daddy Long Legs" and didn't know, as a child, that they > were spiders.. but they are harmless > to humans and I always found them cute... > I like the photo a lot, it looks like some sort of minimalist

Re: Ping

2018-01-18 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
There has been regular activity, but at a rather low rate. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > No activity since 17 Jan 2018, so I thought I'd just check in. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss

Ping

2018-01-18 Thread John Sessoms
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Re: PESO: Spider Family

2018-01-18 Thread ann sanfedele
I thought that,  then looked on web and saw article saying they were.. and believed it because I always think, these days,that it is my brain that is going... went back again and found more evidence to to split them out -- the other name I had forgotten was "harvestmen" and refering to them I

Re: PESO: Spider Family

2018-01-18 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
They are not spiders; they’re arachnids, but they’re actually more closely related to scorpions than they are to spiders. http://mentalfloss.com/article/59455/15-fascinating-facts-about-daddy-longlegs Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:08

Re: A bit of excitement yesterday

2018-01-18 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I am taking images but have been too busy to post. I need to find my submissions for the 2018 PDML Annual first! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Alan C wrote: > Agreed but it seems to have silenced his K5IIs. > >

PESO 2018 - 002 - GDG

2018-01-18 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
It was Summer. I was sixteen, on the beach with several high school friends. I was alone; with my friends. https://flic.kr/p/JDdDjB I never met her. I saw her on the beach, walking by the water's edge, and I was transfixed, in rapture, by the way she moved and the glory of that sarong. I

Re: Week 2 PDML Photo Annual Update

2018-01-18 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Well, in the interest of participating, I've been through a fraction of my Pentax photos from late 2004 to about mid-2005 and pulled 99 that might be worthy of processing into something. Might not … But there are another 28,000 unprocessed photos between mid-2005 and about mid-2008 to hunt

Re: Week 2 PDML Photo Annual Update

2018-01-18 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Well, in the interest of participating, I've been through a fraction of my Pentax photos from late 2004 to about mid-2005 and pulled 99 that might be worthy of processing into something. Might not … But there are another 28,000 unprocessed photos between mid-2005 and about mid-2008 to hunt

Re: PESO: Spider Family

2018-01-18 Thread ann sanfedele
Always called them "Daddy Long Legs" and didn't know, as a child, that they were spiders.. but they are harmless to humans and I always found them cute... I like the photo a lot, it looks like some sort of minimalist painting.. and they dont look at all creepy. I'm not bothered by spiders in

Re: PESO: Spider Family

2018-01-18 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 18.01.18 um 16:08 schrieb Igor PDML-StR: Wow, I've never seen anything like that! So many spiders, and especially little ones! Personally, I don't like this type of spiders. In my childhood we didn't even considered them as spiders. (In the US they are called "Daddy longlegs", and I saw a

Re: A bit of excitement yesterday

2018-01-18 Thread Alan C
Agreed but it seems to have silenced his K5IIs. Alan C -Original Message- From: Chris Mitchell Sent: 18 January, 2018 5:57 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: A bit of excitement yesterday That's the best response to this cock-up that I've heard. Pragmatism at its finest.

Re: A bit of excitement yesterday

2018-01-18 Thread Chris Mitchell
That's the best response to this cock-up that I've heard. Pragmatism at its finest. Well done Dan! Chris On 14 January 2018 at 19:09, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > We are at the beginning of our annual sojourn on Maui. > > Yesterday, at a little after 8:00 AM, we were having

Re: Spider Family

2018-01-18 Thread Alan C
Daddy Long Legs in SA too. Common in houses here. Alan C -Original Message- From: Igor PDML-StR Sent: 18 January, 2018 5:08 PM To: PDML@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: Spider Family David, Wow, I've never seen anything like that! So many spiders, and especially little ones!

Re: PESO: Spider Family

2018-01-18 Thread Igor PDML-StR
David, Wow, I've never seen anything like that! So many spiders, and especially little ones! Personally, I don't like this type of spiders. In my childhood we didn't even considered them as spiders. (In the US they are called "Daddy longlegs", and I saw a reference but have never heard from

Re: Week 2 PDML Photo Annual Update

2018-01-18 Thread ann sanfedele
Adam, I'm having the same problem - but Mark did say it was ok to reach back into our archives, as long as either body or lens is Pentax   - I might do that with one of em ann On 1/17/2018 2:07 PM, Adam Montoya wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Mark Roberts