Some nice shots there. I'll be waiting for more.
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> Thanks to Ken Norton for playing gracious host on Saturday to a great
> gathering of Olympus partisans. I will let Ken sum up the
> proceedings.
>
> As most of us were shooting film, the photos will be coming in the
> next days and weeks. I was shooting Kodachrome, but I brought along
> the E-3 for those occasions where it would be difficult to get
> anything on an ASA 25 film, which was a good bit of the time because
> of the wind.
>
> My journey began with my friend Paul, who is new to OM and has been
> something of a protege. He is also a motorcyclist, so we had a nice
> ride together on back roads through some very pretty country and some
> pretty little towns with picturesque names like "Deep River" and
> "Montezuma." Not to mention "Brooklyn." Oh well. We took the long
> way getting to Grinnell, managing to string out a 70 miles trip into
> 100, but stopped only once to look at a bit of prairie in northwest
> Johnson county and to photograph some abandoned and decaying
> buildings. Little did we know that we would be photographing a
> decaying factory and some prairies when we got to Grinnell.
>
> It was good to see Ken again. It was also great to meet Michael
> Collins, known to listees, and Cory Brown, a pro from a town about 30
> miles away who shoots Olympus digital. It was especially good to see
> Gordon again, who was on the Isle Royale trip and made my experience
> so memorable and enjoyable with his knowledge of botany. Gordan made
> our visits to some restored and native prairies as enjoyable as one
> might have expected. The last photo in the linked sequence includes
> Gordon in the frame, as well as the species liatris aspera, one of a
> couple species whose presence in a prairie indicates that it is
> healthy, according to Gordon.
>
> http://jfwilcox.jalbum.net/Zuikfest/index.html
>
> More and better photos are to come I'm sure!
>
> Joel W.
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