I would just like to wish everybody a wonderful, happy, and safe Holiday!! Thank you to everybody, and of course our moderator Shawn, for making this such a cool forum to be a part of. The photography posted here lately is truly the most pertinent and heartfelt there is. I wish everybody the best, and we'll be catching you next year. Same time, same place, y'all! :0

Merry Christmas!

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), December 19, 2000

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i would like to echo tony's sentiment concerning my wishes for long nights and good times for all the participants herein. i also want to voice my opinion that this site has the potential to become the highest quality source of hands on learning process on the net. the quality of images is indeed generally high--but the thing that sets this outfit apart is the ability of many of the posters here and those who only appear for the purpose of critical analyses to provide very literate insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the images that appear in the forum.

may i suggest that we attempt to expand the number of similarly talented participants over this holiday period by hauling the keenest observers and photographers available in some of the other, larger forums over here to people photography? i know that this could be an exercise not without its problems; but i think it may be better to be a little more populated than a little less.

oh, well, whatever...but happy holidays to all!

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), December 19, 2000.

oops, ya beat me to it, guys. Sorry for the redundant-esque holiday post!

Wayne, I've often thought of plugging PPF on PDN etc., but, excluding the original posting I sent out to the forums to introduce it, I've never really figured out a way to 'hint hint, nudge nudge' the site into a question without seeming blatent. We could always just hold P.G. hostage or something, though...

But in truth, from what I can see here today, YOU (all) are already making this site ACTUALLY great, not just something 'with potential' (my words of course...).

OK they've finished the first part of their exam. gotta go for now. See you all in the new year. Hopefully you'll get lucky and I'll stay as quiet as I have been...or not (bad horror music...).

ps some of these photos around here are incredible.

shawn

-- shawn (seeinsideforever@yahoo.com), December 21, 2000.