Seattle PUG Meeting

Ok, so I'm a little behind the curve in writing this post about our first Seattle PUG meeting but hey, I've been busy. I also had a bridal show this last weekend. I'll save that for another post.

Here's a photo of Susie, Janet, Sara and myself having fun across the street at Sazerac after the meeting.

Thanks for everyone that came. I think we accomplished a lot and I met a lot of great people. I look forward to building great friendships with all of you.


Sara! You rocked! I still can't believe you made me take a cab from your hotel to the bar though. You're a nut!

Come See me at the Everett-Lynnwood Bridal Show

The Everett-Lynnwood Bridal Show is next week end!



If you didn't get a chance to come and visit me in Tacoma last weekend then don't miss me at the Everett-Lynnwood show! I'd love to talk with you about your wedding plans and talk about photography. See you there!


Everett-Lynnwood Wedding Expo
Quality Inn & Suites (formerly Holiday Inn)
101-128th St., S.E. Bldg. A, Everett, WA
Phone: 425-337-2900
January 28-29, 2006
Saturday; 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday; 11 am to 4 pm

Fashion Show Daily at 2 pm

Konica Minolta Pull Out of Camera Business

On the heals of Nikon's annoucement that they are Stopping production of all but two film cameras, Konica Minolta announced today that they are throwing in the towel on their stake in the photo market.

Konica bought long time camera and technology company Minolta in 2003. Now they plan to sell their digital camera business to Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony. They claim it has become too dificult to compete in the current camera market and have decided to focus on their photocopier market. Konica Minolta has also axed it's color film and paper products and expects to end their production by March of 2007.

Tacoma Bridal Show

Wow, I'm tired. This weekend was the annual Spring Bridal show in Tacoma, WA of which I was a part of. It was great meeting a lot of you at the show.

Aside from the Seahawks game on Saturday afternoon that slowed things down a bit, it was a great show. (At least they won!) I handed out around 125 DVDs showcasing my reception slideshows. If you missed the Tacoma show, come see me at the Lynnwood show coming up in two weeks!

If you'd like your own copy of my DVD just email me with your address and I'd be happy to put one in the mail to you.

Nikon's Death Knell for Filmies

Well, it's official. Film is dead.

In a press release yesterday, Nikon has decided to 'reshape it's film camera assortment'. Simply put, they're killing off almost all of their 35mm film camera bodies. The only survivors will be the F6 flagship model and the tried and true FM10 manual body. This is a sad day for film loving Nikonians. Also to get the axe are Nikon's large format lenses and Nikkor enlarging lenses.

Hopefully this will also create lower prices for future DSLR products from Nikon.

So, if you're a film lover and a digital hater, better go buy that F5 or F100 while you still can.

Press releases:

http://www.nikon.co.uk/press_room/releases/show.aspx?rid=201

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=130907&TICK=NIKON&STORY=/www/story/01-11-2006/0004247596&EDATE=Jan+11,+2006