Has anyone heard from F.Gordon?

I know he signed off to "head east" eleven days ago. I was expecting him to be back in touch by now. It's kind of a problem, because a) he's supposed to be co-hosting the "extreme processing" challenge and b) I know he was planning to enter it, and we're starting to fill up on entries.

CC, he said he would be meeting up with you. Have you heard from him yet?

At this moment, I'm inclined to cut off entries to the challenge at 28, reserving a couple of spots for F.Gordon, unless and until I hear from him that he's no longer interested in submitting any entries.

Currently in Allentown, PA. For us.. that is considered "heading east". :) Who knew this computer had one of em' LANie things. Haven't been able to hook a wireless notch lately.

Nothing has gone according to plan this week. Old friend revisited me on Thursday and now I have to see about getting sliced and diced when we get back to Denver. Nothing says the holidays like having surgery. :( Screwed over CC meetup with a change of plans. Wind. Rain. Snow. Clouds. Haven't shot below ISO200 all week.

Heading out today to try to find "something" then off to the Newark airport.... get back to Denver tonight. I'll help you out with the challenge. But.... don't cut off the entries because of me. Let me know what your plans were and I will help out. You can PM me or post plans here or whatever.

I have 2 or 3 could enter but if I get cut off.... I get cut off. Thanks for thinking about me though. Really appreciate it.

If I'm up to it I'll check in tonight or tommorrow morning at the latest. Fantastic entries.... awesome challenge photos. Glad you came up with the idea.

Off to find that "something"....
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Though would say that I think even if he doesn't make the challenge he should HAVE to post his anyway.

F.G. don't worry about the not meeting. Between our beautiful (cough cough) fall weather and your having lots to do in a short amount of time something had to give. We learned to never never map out vacations because the plans never worked. You and Mrs. F.G. will just have to come back out again during a good time of year weather wise, or for the next anti-war protest.

You should see what happens when we go to CO. So many Aunts, Uncles and cousins that we started "heading home" early so we could go see places. Wish I had learned to do that before the last two trips.

We "headed home" early. ;-)

Yes, the weather sucked, but you definitely live in a beautiful area. It would have been nice to have more snaps with some of that blue sky...... We had never tried to map out a plan before and as you point out it just doesn't work very well.

We'd find places that were in areas that we just came from so we would quite often end up going back and forth.... very frustrating.

I can tell you that we've added that part of the country to our short list of possible places to retire. That's how impressed we were with it. But... what's up with the roads with no shoulders? I was constantly finding myself trepassing (everywhere you go it's posted "private property"... "no trepassing") and then I thought about that kid in Livitz that had 54 guns.
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And in some very old places I wasn't allowed to use a tripod or a flash inside buildings. I respected that. Just cranked it up to ISO 1600 and adjusted the exposure compensation.

FYI... regarding photographing the Amish. There seems to be a prevailing message from the "locals" that this is not permissible. So... I asked the Amish folk. It's not quite true. What the Amish won't do is pose for the camera. This is what they object to. I think this is part urban legend just to keep the hordes of tourists from bugging the shit out of these people.

Next time... and there will definitely be a next time we will get together. Me.. being a bit of a history buff was consumed with certain things I came across. Forgotten and Lost History. Quite sad.

Oh well. Next time. And now we have a list of all the places we missed so we can narrow our "plan" and still "keep it loose".

I would highly recommend eastern/central PA area for any photog. We got lost the first day because our GPS lost the signal when we were in a heavily wooded area on a very cloudy day. But the places we found.... quite beautiful..... wonderful.

because I never thought about a GPS losing its signal though I know the cell phone always does.

On the Amish, it depends on them. My SIL tried taking a picture of a guy down the road tilling his field with his 8 horse team. He drove over and ask her to please not take his or his families picture. Then watched until we left. I think it depends on who it is and maybe how tired they are of cameras. This guy was young.

Not sure on the whys tripod part in old places but understand the flash. Though a few places have dropped that too.

Shoulders on roads? What are they? You have shoulders on your roads? :rofl: And did you happen to notice on the smaller narrower roads that PA drivers use the middle expecting you to split you car in half and use each side. Also it is a luxury provide by the fed to have a line in the middle of the road in many places.

It is pretty here, that is how my mom broke her father's heart and left CO to live in the green green east. Though must warn anyone that people here do not know how to drive in snow here and specially PA doesn't know how to plow snow off of the roads.

I have to get since heading to Baltimore for a Sunday wedding. Will be looking for more vacation stories tomorrow night.

Here you go and for those that have never been here, our traffic tie up starter. We really could use shoulders.


Shot through the car windshield.

My father in law came up with the name of "Mabel" for our GPS (because it "talks" in a female voice).. so it always stuck. This is the only snap of "Mabel" that I took. We stopped on a covered bridge and instead of focusing on the bridge I focused on "Mabel".

I got a snap of the bridge but I had to (again.... no friggin shoulder) stop in the middle of the road and walk out into a wet muddy field. Up the road was an Amish school house and farm.

I'll wait to get my film (shot 5 rolls) back before I bore the group with my PA snaps. Shot 2 rolls of infrared and it can take a month to get it back because most "normal" places won't develop it. Have to use a specialty film processor.

I figured the snow thing pretty quickly because there is nowhere to plow the snow to. You'd end up making everything a one lane road.

That's a wonderful "traffic gridlock" :rofl: shot you got. I have a few like that.. until later..... here's "Mabel"....