Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-23 Thread Toralf Lund
On 23/05/18 00:48, Larry Colen wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: I tend to look for interesting, too, but hardly ever seem to spot any, so what can you do? :-) I've been spending a few decades perfecting boring. Really? Did you find it interesting? - T -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
My copy of the PDML Annual showed up today. No time to sit down with it, just a quick skim so far, but it's very nicely done. Thanks Mark! and everyone who contributed. Things like this are an inspiration. :-) G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-22 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 6:48 PM Larry Colen wrote: > I've been spending a few decades perfecting boring. Maybe Elon Musk will hire you. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-22 Thread Larry Colen
Toralf Lund wrote: I tend to look for interesting, too, but hardly ever seem to spot any, so what can you do? :-) I've been spending a few decades perfecting boring. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-22 Thread Toralf Lund
On 19/05/18 16:28, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Part 3A I'm PISSED because Bruce Nagel and Larry Colen both called up the ghost of M C Escher to produce images that just hypnotize me. I'm PISSED because I took hundreds of images of beautiful orchids in Maui, and Jan van Wijk came up with an orchid

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-22 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 22/5/18, Chris Mitchell, discombobulated, unleashed: > I've been shooting >actual film on an actual MX recently and one of my shots in the annual was >one of these. Hmmm. Something tells me it's the Romanesque church? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) |Live

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-22 Thread Chris Mitchell
On 18 May 2018 at 00:05, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > Stunned. And also a little sad that some of our best snappers aren't in > due to lack of Pentax gear. Maybe worth pressing an old Pentax lens into > service on those Leicas and Fujis eh? If Chris Mitchell can figure it >

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-21 Thread ann sanfedele
triple!  - but I've told him that before :-) ann On 5/21/2018 10:59 PM, Brian Walters wrote: On 22 May 2018 at 12:27 Paul Stenquist wrote: What Dan said! Double! Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-21 Thread Brian Walters
> On 22 May 2018 at 12:27 Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > What Dan said! Double! Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > Paul > > > On May 21, 2018, at 9:44 PM, Daniel J. Matyola

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-21 Thread Paul Stenquist
What Dan said! Paul > On May 21, 2018, at 9:44 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > You do a great job of pairing images, and it greatly enhances the annual. > > Thanks again for your efforts -- and artistic sense. > > Dan Matyola >

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
You do a great job of pairing images, and it greatly enhances the annual. Thanks again for your efforts -- and artistic sense. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Daniel J. Matyola

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-21 Thread Mark Roberts
Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >Part 3B: > >I'm PISSED because Rick Womer and Ted Beilby independently came up with >stunning surrealistic images of chairs, at the opposite ends of the scale, >and filled them with great humor, which was then intensified by Mark's >placing them side by side. Thanks for

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-21 Thread ann sanfedele
Ed - I think we are nicely paired  - sorry I won't get to GFM this year, again.. ann On 5/21/2018 10:32 AM, Ed Keeney wrote: Dan, Thanks for the kind words. I'm just happy to be part of a great collection of work. Part 2 of my comments on the annual. I'm PISSED because I can only get

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-21 Thread Ed Keeney
Dan, Thanks for the kind words. I'm just happy to be part of a great collection of work. >Part 2 of my comments on the annual. > >I'm PISSED because I can only get fairly decent shots of beautiful >subjects, while Ann San and Ed Keeney take ugly hunks of walls and make >them into objects of

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-20 Thread Jan van Wijk
Thanks Dan, for the comment on both of mine ... Regards, JvW On Sat, 19 May 2018 10:30:30 -0400 Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > >I'm PISSED because I'm bugged by my lack of patience, while Jan van Wijk >and Jostein Oksne have the skill, artistry and patience to turn bugs into >things so fascinating

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 19/5/18, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: > I have seen similar photos >from time to tim, but none with the character and level of detail in Dam's >image. Love Freudian slips -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) |Live Broadcast News --

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 19/5/18, Adam Montoya, discombobulated, unleashed: > Thanks for the kind words. I knew I was submitting that photo the moment I >envisioned it in my head and hit the shutter. One to be proud of mate -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) |Live Broadcast News

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I agree. Adam's hand is an overpowering image. I have seen similar photos from time to tim, but none with the character and level of detail in Dam's image. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote:

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Jack Davis
Brilliant image, Adam! J Sent from my iPhone > On May 19, 2018, at 10:56 AM, Adam Montoya wrote: > >> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: >> >> I spent a good hour going through the Annual this afternoon and it is a >>

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Adam Montoya
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > I spent a good hour going through the Annual this afternoon and it is a > stunning range of work by some very talented photographers. Lovely design > by Mark, it has to be said. Can't believe it's 10 years since the

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread John
On 5/19/2018 10:23, Bruce Walker wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 1:31 AM, Bill wrote: On 5/18/2018 10:13 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Part 2 of my comments on the annual. [...] I'm PISSED because Bruce Walker produced not only a great portrait study but

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Part 3B: I'm PISSED because Rick Womer and Ted Beilby independently came up with stunning surrealistic images of chairs, at the opposite ends of the scale, and filled them with great humor, which was then intensified by Mark's placing them side by side. I'M PISSED because Steven Sharpe and Brian

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Part 3A I'm PISSED because Bruce Nagel and Larry Colen both called up the ghost of M C Escher to produce images that just hypnotize me. I'm PISSED because I took hundreds of images of beautiful orchids in Maui, and Jan van Wijk came up with an orchid image that brings the flowers alive to an

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread ann sanfedele
Didn't see part 3 but thanks for the props :-) ann On 5/19/2018 7:56 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Did my part three make it to the list? I got a mrssage that it was still too long . . . . On 5/18/2018 10:13 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Part 2 of my comments on the annual. I'm PISSED

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Bruce Walker
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 1:31 AM, Bill wrote: > On 5/18/2018 10:13 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> >> Part 2 of my comments on the annual. >> [...] >> >> I'm PISSED because Bruce Walker produced not only a great portrait study >> but slipped a nip slip past the censors

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Bruce Walker
Haven't seen it, Dan. Looking forward to it though; I enjoyed parts 1 and 2 a lot. :-D On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Did my part three make it to the list? > > I got a mrssage that it was still too long . . . . > > Dan Matyola >

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Jostein
Maybe it's a bladder issue? :-P Jostein Den 19.05.2018 13:56, skrev Daniel J. Matyola: Did my part three make it to the list? I got a mrssage that it was still too long . . . . Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 1:31 AM, Bill

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-19 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Did my part three make it to the list? I got a mrssage that it was still too long . . . . Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 1:31 AM, Bill wrote: > On 5/18/2018 10:13 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> Part 2 of

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread Bill
On 5/18/2018 10:13 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Part 2 of my comments on the annual. I'm PISSED because I can only get fairly decent shots of beautiful subjects, while Ann San and Ed Keeney take ugly hunks of walls and make them into objects of great interest and beauty. I'm PISSED since I

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Part 2 of my comments on the annual. I'm PISSED because I can only get fairly decent shots of beautiful subjects, while Ann San and Ed Keeney take ugly hunks of walls and make them into objects of great interest and beauty. I'm PISSED since I forgot what the third image I submitted was, and

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Part 1 of my comments on the annual. Well, I finally got my copy of the 2018 Annual, and I'm PISSED! I'm PISSED because UPS had the book Saturday when they said they tried to deliver it by found my office closed. They had it Sat but did not deliver it yesterday, or this morning or this

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I have made three efforts to post my comments on the 2018 Annual. Each time it has been rejected as too large. I will try to split it into three posts, which follow. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 18/5/18, Subash Jeyan, discombobulated, unleashed: >unfortunately the link is not working anymore Aha Cottysnaps.com is no more. But that means I have the critiques somewhere... -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) |Live Broadcast News --

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread John
On 5/17/2018 19:08, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 18/5/18, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: But the star of the show are the photographs Oh dear oh dear oh dear. The only tense I understand apparently are camping ones. Are you sure? Remember, some of us have seen how you pitch a

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread ann sanfedele
OkGodders, when you get back to New York later this year you can borrow my K-5 while we walkabout - and I'll use your Leica while you are using myk5 :-) On 5/18/2018 8:37 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I could fit a Pentax lens on the Leica SL body with an adapter. But I sold off all my good

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread ann sanfedele
doesn't come up in my browser :-( On 5/18/2018 4:55 AM, Subash Jeyan wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 18/5/18, Subash Jeyan, discombobulated, unleashed: written with a rare generous of heart. incidentally, iirc, it is ten years since

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I could fit a Pentax lens on the Leica SL body with an adapter. But I sold off all my good Pentax lenses that I would want to shoot with when I sold the K100 body. Time has marched on. My photography today is done with the Leica M-D typ 262 or the Light L16 most of the time. I appreciate

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread Subash Jeyan
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 18/5/18, Subash Jeyan, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >written with a rare generous of heart. incidentally, iirc, it is ten > >years since your page by page critique the very first annualall the > >best with

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread Bob W-PDML
> > On 18 May 2018, at 00:06, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > > Incidentally if anyone knows someone looking for a cute little English > cottage on the edge of the Cotswolds, here is the link: > > > Very

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-18 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 18/5/18, Subash Jeyan, discombobulated, unleashed: >written with a rare generous of heart. incidentally, iirc, it is ten >years since your page by page critique the very first annualall the >best with your house sales and your moving. Ten years! It was the first edition? Oh my, that

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-17 Thread Subash Jeyan
written with a rare generous of heart. incidentally, iirc, it is ten years since your page by page critique the very first annualall the best with your house sales and your moving. ~subash On Fri, 18 May 2018 00:05:18 +0100 "Steve Cottrell" wrote: > I spent a good hour

Re: PDML Photo Annual 2018 - Stunning

2018-05-17 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 18/5/18, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: >But the star of the show are the photographs Oh dear oh dear oh dear. The only tense I understand apparently are camping ones. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) |Live Broadcast News --