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Subject: [OM] Re: Thanks Ozzie Zuiks!
From: "Ali Shah" <farali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:35:35 -0400
If you plan on venturing out to Niagara Falls/Buffalo NY USA...let me know.

- Ali

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Scharf" <scharfsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:44 PM
Subject: [OM] Thanks Ozzie Zuiks!


>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Just wanted to extend a public thank you to all the Ozzie Zuiks who so 
> graciously spent time meeting and visiting with me while I was in 
> Australia for holiday.
>
> Andrew Fildes and I spent a couple of days together, foraging about 
> Melbourne. Andrew proved an informative, entertaining guide and 
> conversationalist. The Burke and Wills story was notable...two explorers 
> starving to death in the Outback, never asking the Aborigines for help, 
> and the Aborigines, who couldn't understand how two men could starve to 
> death surrounded by food.
>
> We also met up with Wayne Harridge and Peter Davies for lunch. Thanks to 
> Andrew and Peter for their instructions on getting me to Philip Island for 
> the MotoGP with a minimum of hassle.
>
> In Sydney, I had a great time meeting up with Marc Lawrence and John 
> Wheeler. We spent a very nice time photographing at the Chinese gardens, 
> and a nice lunch at the tea house. John also called me on my one sunny day 
> in Sydney and met me in Manly, whereupon he ever so kindly drove me out to 
> his home, and then out for a look at West Head. He and his gracious wife 
> were wonderfuls hosts for the day. Many thanks, John!
>
> I am now here in Toronto, attending a Genetics conference, but when I get 
> a chance, I will post a link to some photos from my photo excursions with 
> the Ozzie Zuiks.
>
> Thank you all again for making the trip fun and memorable.
>
> I have posted a set of photos on SportsShooter from the MotoGP. 
> Photographing the MotoGP with credentials was a wonderful experience. I 
> have my photo credential from Dorna autographed by (now six-time) World 
> Champion Valentino Rossi as a souvenir. I apologize if the photos look too 
> light on some of your monitors...I originally prepped these on the cheesy 
> Dell laptop display (with a bad case of 18 hr jetlag, I might add),  where 
> they looked fine, but they turned out to be notably too dark in the 
> midtones on my Dell LCD desktop display at work. I reworked most of them 
> to be lighter, but depending on how your monitor is set, this could vary 
> noticeably. They may look fine or the may look too light.  They are based 
> on a monitor profile using color temperature to D65 (6500K) with a 
> targeted luminance of 85-90 cd/m^2 for CRT monitors. If you're not 
> hardware referencing your monitor, obviously YMMV. Until I get my new 
> Monaco Optix XR Pro next week for monitor profiling, I don't have
> a good monitor luminance reference from which to work from, hence the 
> possible confusion.
> Here is the link to the SportsShooter gallery:
>
> http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=1138
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen.
>
>
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