Introduce Yourself & Welcome Other Members (archive)

[stopwalve]

Here's 2 &3
#2: Steve McQueen
#3: Mako

[Colin Southern]

Here's 2 &3
#2: Steve McQueen
#3: Mako

Nope - sorry. I give up - knowing me, I probably won't even get it when you tell me!

[Daniel Salazar]

@ Welcome Mark (stopwalve), I would like to see some of your aviation pictures. I do like them, I'm waiting to go to the next flying show on March 27 and will show some pictures.



@ mseawell, welcome to the forum. Are you in Bayern?

[Daniel Salazar]

Hi Daniel,

Yeah - I actually knew that But saying to a Swiss person "Say hi to (German) Michael Schumacher" just doesn't quite seem the same

You're right , however in fact I've to tell you that I'm Mexican, however since my company transfered me some years ago to Switzerland and my wife is Swiss, we decided to stay here, however due to my job as Controller I travel around four times a year to Mexico, then ones a while I can eat some real "tacos" and "fajitas".

[Colin Southern]

You're right , however in fact I've to tell you that I'm Mexican, however since my company transfered me some years ago to Switzerland and my wife is Swiss, we decided to stay here, however due to my job as Controller I travel around four times a year to Mexico, then ones a while I can eat some real "tacos" and "fajitas".

I'm envious - about the only travelling I get to do these days is the 1/2 hours drive from home to work and back. One day I'll hopefully hop on a plane and (camera in hand) come visit some of you.

[Donald]

Hello to everyone from Perthshire, Scotland. My name is Donald, the hairline is receding fast and why does my age have a 5 as the first digit instead of a 2 or a 3!
I was born and lived in the Highlands of Scotland (Fort William and Inverness areas, for those who know that part of the world), for the first 35 years of life. And then 'emigrated' 100+ miles south to Perthshire.
I work in child protection, in a role that (attempts) to co-ordinate the activities of police, health, social services and NGOs, in relation to developing and delivering services to vulnerable children and young people.
The passion for photography was inspired by a teacher in school many years ago. He had set up a darkroom in the school and introduced me to the wonders of making images. When I started earning some money, a Canon AV1 became my pride and joy. Then other things in life took over and photography became a memory. But now ......!
I've just entered the world of digital photography and am on a very steep learning curve. Using a Canon EOS40D (bought just before the January price-hike), with the kit 17-85 IS USM lens with Cokin Grads and Polariser.
Am delighted that I found this forum. All the posts I've read so far show a real sense of community - a place where constructive comment, advice and guidance is offered. Looking forward to being part of it.
Donald

[Colin Southern]

Hi Donald,

Great to have you with us Do you prefer Donald or Don by the way?

The 40D is certainly a great camera - I spent a lot of time using it's "grandfather" the 20D - and still sell images produced with it - and the 40D is a very worthy descendent / decendant / discendent ... replacement!

Sounds like a very rewarding job you have there - I'm convinced that it takes a very special type of person to be able to work in that kind of field - I know I sure wouldn't be able to manage it for even a day.

Hope you'll jump in boots and all here (the best way to get involved) - we're all here to help, and if you make a mistake and muck something up DON'T WORRY - unlike many other sites you can edit your own posts here or Sean or I can fix up anything else that might go wrong pretty easily - so feel free to start a thread - reply to a thread - or pop a photo into one of the threads running at the moment (preferable a nice one in the current weekly team challenge - us Canonites got our butts wupped last week by the other two teams

[Donald]

Hi Colin (and others).

It's usually Donald, but I generally respond to anything!

[Colin Southern]

Hi Colin (and others).

It's usually Donald, but I generally respond to anything!

Donald it shall be then!

[Colin Southern]

@ Welcome Mark (stopwalve), I would like to see some of your aviation pictures. I do like them, I'm waiting to go to the next flying show on March 27 and will show some pictures.

I don't normally do this ... but if anyone would like to take a cockpit ride in one of the Blue Angels F/A-18's (the ultimate airshow display professionals), point your browser at ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9t_bbkeQc

Enjoy

[lost4words]

Hi.
My name is Raker.
I'm 47 and live in Aberdeen. I was introduced to this group by mark (ChelseaBlue) after he was kind enough to help me out over at Flickr.
I recently got hold of a DSLR after using my mobile phone as a camera.

[stopwalve]

Hi Colin:

The term is from the movie 'The Sand Pebbles'. The character (the actor) Mako plays doesn't speak english very well. He is being instructed on how to run a steam boiler and has trouble pronouncing the words 'main steam stopvalve'. He prounounces it 'min stim stopwalve.

O.K., I admit its somewhat obscure (great movie though).

Sorry, sometimes the journey of a thousand steps isn't worth the first one.

[Dave Humphries]

He prounounces it 'min stim stopwalve.

And was there also a 'min stim gowalve' too?
Don't blame me this time, you started it!

Welcome also to Mark, Donald and Raker.

I wonder, do recent new recruits signal the beginning of a membership swing from Kiwi to Scot?

Regards to all,

[Donald]

I wonder, do recent new recruits signal the beginning of a membership swing from Kiwi to Scot?

Ye can tak' away oor youthful good looks, but ye'll never tak away oor Canons (or whatever it was Mel Gibson said in Braveheart)

[stopwalve]

I believe Gowalve was the name of a monster from a 60's horor movie: The creature was merely misunderstood. All he wanted was to be loved. "Goodbye Gowalve! We Love you! Come back and see us!".

[Daniel Salazar]

I don't normally do this ... but if anyone would like to take a cockpit ride in one of the Blue Angels F/A-18's (the ultimate airshow display professionals), point your browser at ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9t_bbkeQc

Enjoy

Hi Colin, I prefer to see them from a confortable place = the earth.

[Daniel Salazar]

Hi Donald, welcome and I hope we can see soon some nice Scottish landscapes.

[The Blue Boy]

@Donald, welcome, mate.

@ Raker, yay, you got through OK, we've Colin to thank for that. Welcome, enjoy the site!

[pixel pete]

Hi everyone,
I'm not sure how I should categorize myself these days. Are you defined by how you make your living or what you used to do?

Anyway, I was a staff photographer for a daily newspaper in Southern California for 18 years. I quit almost 5 years ago. Numerous reasons but the main one: bad boss!

These days, I'm Mr. Mom, blogger, freelance photographer (when my phone rings) and part-time photography instructor.

Luckily I don't suffer from “lens and equipment envy” as much anymore having had the best equipment at my disposal when I worked at the newspaper. Quite often my students show up with better gear than I have, so it does reinforce the notion that “It's not the gear, but the person using it.”

http://peterphun.com/blog

[The Blue Boy]

Hey Pete,

Nice to see some "old" hands signing in, even if they have been here a while!