Thank you so much for doing this, Brian. It is really wonderful being able to look at the early galleries. It was great seeing the work of some of the PUGsters who are no longer participating on the list. There are a lot of familiar names I haven't seen in years.
I was not a member of the group when the PUG started. I lurked for a year or so, and didn't have the nerve to submit an entry until Feb 2000. I remember what a job it was getting a good scan back then. Mostly I worked from prints rather than slides or negatives, and the results weren't always great (but neither were my images). I was surprised to recall that one of my earliest entries was a black and white image with the old 6X7. What a camera that was . . . . Thanks again for all your efforts on behalf of the group. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > Great job, Brian. I enjoyed the trip back in time. You are right that there > were months with no galleries; I sometimes couldn't get images, sometimes > didn't have time, and the attitude was very much in the "whenever" mode. It > was a year or two before we decided to make it a regular thing. > > Like all that fancy code? I tell you, I was a whiz at HTML. =cough= > > > > > On 3/19/12 4:54 PM, Brian Walters wrote: >> >> G'day all >> >> A project I've had in mind since taking over as PUG-meister, was to try >> to find and restore the first few PUG galleries from 1997/98. >> >> As 2012 is the PUG's 15th anniversary, I decided that now would be a >> good time. In any case, it hasn't stopped raining here for weeks so I've >> spent a lot more time at the computer than is usual... >> >> In the 'Previous Galleries' page on Komkon, we already had all galleries >> back to March 1998. As it turned out, galleries from April 1997 (the >> very first PUG) to August 1997 were, in fact, already stored away on the >> Komkon server. They were just hidden away in the archives folder and not >> readily accessible. Restoring those was a fairy simple exercise. >> >> This left galleries from September 1997 to February 1998 still >> 'missing'. These were galleries stored on the now departed GeoCities >> system. >> >> Enter - The Wayback Machine. >> >> Fortunately, I had a web address for one of the GeoCities galleries and, >> by fiddling with the URLs I was able to locate galleries for Dec 97, Jan >> 98 and Feb 98. >> >> All of these galleries have now been restored to the 'Previous >> Galleries' page. So, what about Sep/Oct/Nov 97? I don't know, but as >> they aren't in the archives and don't seem to be on the Wayback Machine, >> I'm guessing that there weren't any PUGs for those months. >> >> If you want to take a look back at PDML history, check out these early >> PUGs at: >> >> http://pug.komkon.org/general/pastgalleries.html >> >> Remember - these were dial-up days when bandwidth for posting images was >> limited, so the images are very small by the standards of today's PUG. >> And, of course, all were taken on film cameras and had to be scanned. >> >> It's interesting to see who of today's regular PDMLers were active back >> then. Doug Brewer is the only name I recognise in the April 97 gallery >> but JCO and Derby show up in May 97 with Luiz and Dario also appearing >> in '97. >> >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
