Mike Stirewalt wrote: > I really wish somebody would publish an overview of this year's > Gathering - who attended, who won what awards, pictures. I saw plenty > of cameras there but so far I haven't seen any results of what surely > is a treasure trove of photographs.
I took quite a few pictures...so many that it will take a while to sort them out and turn them into a web page, but I'll try to get that done in the next few days. As for awards, they were mostly split between Jeff Scott and Kim Niebauer, although there are definitely some honorable mentions, such as Roger Bulla's newly minted plane. They were all very close in terms of quality. I also got air-to-air shots of all the KRs visiting (except for Mike's...he was not around for that), and we owe John Bouyea for that photo opportunity. It was a well-done Gathering. Many thanks to Dan and John for pulling off a great Gathering. I haven't done anything regarding the Gathering photos because we've been riding around Oregon and Washington national parks for the last week, ending up with Mt St. Helens "national monument" yesterday. That was quite interesting. It had recovered amazingly well from the photos I remember from the news way back in 1980...just gray moonscape with zillions of tree trunks laid out like match sticks...all pointing away from the blast zone. It looks a lot better now, and it's good to see how nature manages to recover from that kind of event. More on that (much later) when I do a web page on that vacation... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com
