... from my perspective, one of the coolest things the A2 forum did was create yearly meetings and then encouraged local "stammtisch" meetings, held regularly or irregularly. People know you and are (more) prepared to help as a result.
The ice track meeting last year bound the guys who came together in a way that they'll never forget. They spent a *lot* of money but had a shedload of fun and everyone screwed something up or did something silly and they all remember it and still talk about it. I am proud of that - as the advert went - "have you ever held a party people still talk about?" - and they feel good about the whole thing such that they're prepared to put their monies where their mouths are again. And I'm talking the thick end of a thousand euros for a long weekend.

I think that there needs to be the feel of a community - and that means reliable advice and thoughts on a lot of subjects, which may or may not be relevant. I see it here in - for example - the food discussions.

I realised yesterday as well something else that's missing: Wiki. Identification, simple, clear information for newbies. Camera spec differences (K100D, K100Ds, K200d...) - what are they exactly and more to the point, what does this mean for me?
Wiki may actually help the community, too, as someone somewhere gets to write stuff and needs to defend it. Others get knowledge and may point out inconsistencies, meaning they also have part-ownership - which is crucial IMO if you want the community to prosper.

Bret

It was snowing heavily in Helsinki for around 30 minutes... nothing lying, but it's been over freezing for only 3 hours today. We'll see, some more would be nice

Snow!

interesting. will have to check the links... no, there's no 16. Ah well, I can't count either

Bret

I know. It's also been months since I really posted properly... I've been busy. The holiday was well over 6500km (which it wasn't supposed to be) and nearly 6 weeks. Since then I've been organising IceTrack 2.0 for Feb.

Bret

they's my driving lights and DRLs. But you have a point, I will look into doing it, I've mainly been using the shot as avatar and they're kinda small

thanks!

Bret

A couple more:

Something else from Tampere, that's a HDR and I'd like an opinion on:




Bret

Well, it was, and then it went away again. But that means lots of nice ice and snow to photograph without freezing your tail off....

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These are from Tampere a couple of weeks back: