Originally posted by cupic ^^^ I trust all went well on your day trip with your overseas friend ?
Day out on the harbour
cheers
Yes the day was fantastic.
As some may have read, Christian of the Netherlands - SpaceDoc from this forum - was visiting Australia on a business/holiday trip over the past 4 weeks. I offered to show him around Sydney, after his conference finished, and organise a photo shoot with some of the Sydney chapter of the DPReview forum.
The Sydney chapter consisted of Guy(Guy M), Mike(MikeAusA200), Simon(Mechan1K) and myself. We met at 9am near the ferry terminal at Circular Quay, Sydney and the 5 of us wandered off towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge talking photography and taking photos.
On our way, we ran into a young guy, Russell, with a Canon 450D(?) from Manchester, England who had just flown into Sydney at 5am that morning. Russell seemed like a nice young fellow(even though he was a Canon shooter) ;-) and seeing as he was alone in strange city and was a photographer we asked if he would like to join us for the days photoshoot. He said he'd love to. Let the fun begin. ;-)
It turned out a fantastic day. We had lots of fun and laughs, usually at Russell's expense jibing him about owning a Canon and being English, but he was giving as good as he got and he was also enjoying the time with us.
I handed out LBA stickers to the group, that I had received from Pentax a few years ago, and even gave one to Russell. When at lunch, Christian even got a photo of Russell with the LBA sticker placed on his Canon camera!
We made the remark that Russell will put a big line through the map of Australia and write Pentaxia over it instead and vow never to return for fear of being accosted by maniac Pentax shooters. He was really good natured about it and helped make the day a fun day for all. We swapped email addresses, so we may hopefully get him to drop into our forum when he gets back home and talk about his Pentax experience even though it must have been scary for him. ;-)
Christian was a real fun guy, great to be with and very enthusiastic about many things that he talked about and loves his photography. He is actually a German living in the Netherlands due to his work.