You're invited: Dgrin's 5-Year Birthday

schmoo · August 26, 2008

Can you believe it? Digital Grin was birthed on December 11, 2003. Five whole years of great shots, generous people, helpful advice, shootout adventures, and everything in between.

To celebrate we're throwing a party so we can all have one great chance to get together, mingle, shmooze, talk shop, and maybe even do a little shooting on the side. And unlike Moab we're kicking attendance limits to the curb! This is the best darned photo community on the web and we owe it all to you. Come one, come all, and just get together to eat, drink, be merry, and get to know those text-based friends in real life.

You can RSVP using the form below, NOT in a reply, please! We need to get a rough head count so we can figure out the best venue to hold this shindig. If possible we'd like to have your response by October 1. So put your hands together, click those buttons and let's show 'em that our Digitally Grinny awesomeness can't be contained on the internet alone. :ivar

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UPDATE with some potentially useful information for those dedicated Dgrinners flying in for this event:

Hotels
Smuggers know that the nearby Hotel Zico is a great, reasonable hotel very closely located to pretty much everything

Ground Transportation
CalTrain serves the peninsula from San Francisco to San Jose and limited service to Gilroy.

Valley Transportation Agency Provides bus service throughout Santa Clara County

BART Bay Area Rapid Transit

Yellow Cab Serving all three area airports

Airports
San Francisco, SFO

San Jose, SJC

Oakland, OAK

schmoo · August 26, 2008

Fill out my Wufoo form!

DavidTO · August 26, 2008

I'm in! :smo

And I did what you said... RSVPd in the form, not here in the thread!

Dee · August 26, 2008

What a neat rsvp form!!!! I'm in.

zweiblumen · August 26, 2008

Yay!! I'm going to Cali!

schmoo · August 26, 2008

zweiblumen wrote:

Yay!! I'm going to Cali!

... again!! :ivar:ivar:ivar

This is going to be so faboo :smo

Awais Yaqub · August 26, 2008

:cry I hope i could join you
any way i will wait for 10th great birthday

Sam · August 26, 2008

OK........I give up! What am I supposed to do with your form??????

I'll be a coming, keep a few vittles hot for me.

Sam

ivar · August 26, 2008

5.800.........

That's the minimum number of miles I'll be traveling to get to this party

:smo

DavidTO · August 26, 2008

Sam wrote:

OK........I give up! What am I supposed to do with your form??????

Sam

Serious?

darkdragon · August 26, 2008

How is the weather in that area in DEC? Is Alcatraz open for tours that time of year? Just trying to figure out what to do the rest of the weekend.

aktse · August 26, 2008

darkdragon wrote:

How is the weather in that area in DEC? Is Alcatraz open for tours that time of year? Just trying to figure out what to do the rest of the weekend.

Since you're from Vegas, weather is going to be on the cool side and it might be rainy. It just depends on what you're used to...

average for Mountain View
average for San Francisco

And yes, Alcatraz is open, but they don't have night tours. For the rest of the weekend -- eat, sight see, hike, museums, etc.

There is tons to do in the bay area (indoors and outside).

Phyxius · August 26, 2008

Woo hoo, I sent in a maybe but I really, really want to come. And, as it turns out a friend of mine (and fellow smugmug user) lived in Mountain View for 12 years and is willing to come out there with me. So, I may change my "maybe" to a "yes" and with another person.

April, I know it's early yet, but would you possibly be up for going shooting?

schmoo · August 26, 2008

Awais Yaqub wrote:

any way i will wait for 10th great birthday

Promise?

Sam · August 26, 2008

DavidTO wrote:

Serious?

Yes......I can see the form............I can type in the form.........then what?

Sam

zweiblumen · August 26, 2008

Sam wrote:

Yes......I can see the form............I can type in the form.........then what?

Sam

Click "Submit"

schmoo · August 26, 2008

Sam wrote:

Yes......I can see the form............I can type in the form.........then what?

Sam

Sam if there is some technical glitch or some other reason why the button doesn't show for you, please let me know so I can fix it!

aktse · August 26, 2008

Phyxius wrote:

April, I know it's early yet, but would you possibly be up for going shooting?

Possibility???!??!?

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Most definitely!

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Depending on the weather, temps, (and party details), make some plans for some sort of an easy going, loose, mini-shootout.

This generally happens when a bunch of photographers get together in one place.

And it will probably be very loose -- who ever wants to come can come, and others can explore on their own.

So... since you asked -- anything you want to see/do?
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The bay area has plenty of stuff indoors and outdoors.

And knowing me, I'll probably bake too. sooooo... requests? Healthy no-sugar vegan stuff to the full fat, full sugar variety and everything in between. Give it to me.

Sam · August 26, 2008

schmoo wrote:

Sam if there is some technical glitch or some other reason why the button doesn't show for you, please let me know so I can fix it!

I think the multi-phase shielding is interfering with the dilithium crystal alignment, thus placing the "submit" button out of a dimensional retinal recognized wave length.

Sam

schmoo · August 26, 2008

Sam wrote:

I think the multi-phase shielding is interfering with the dilithium crystal alignment, thus placing the "submit" button out of a dimensional retinal recognized wave length.

Sam

:lol4

Allen · August 27, 2008

How about holding it somewhere in the center of the US so the Eastern peeps could drive vs flying.:D

Jane B. · August 27, 2008

schmoo wrote:

Sam if there is some technical glitch or some other reason why the button doesn't show for you, please let me know so I can fix it!

I'm not Sam but I ordinarlly have my text size in Firefox set two increases up. The whole form does not show for me that way. But, decrease 4 times and then it will all show.

Hope this helps
Jane B.

schmoo · August 28, 2008

Allen wrote:

How about holding it somewhere in the center of the US so the Eastern peeps could drive vs flying.:D

We did discuss that when we were throwing ideas around, but since Smuggy is chipping in it just made sense to keep it closer to "home."

schmoo · August 28, 2008

Jane B. wrote:

I'm not Sam but I ordinarlly have my text size in Firefox set two increases up. The whole form does not show for me that way. But, decrease 4 times and then it will all show.

Hope this helps
Jane B.

Hmm so it doesn't all fit in the page or it just doesn't work at all? The form as generated does stretch to the width of the window (whether I like that or not...)

Thanks for the input, Jane!

Jane B. · August 28, 2008

schmoo wrote:

Hmm so it doesn't all fit in the page or it just doesn't work at all? The form as generated does stretch to the width of the window (whether I like that or not...)

Thanks for the input, Jane!

I am older and wear bi-folcals. In order to sit back and read without cocking my head to look through the right portion of them I ordinarily increase the text size from the default and don't wear my glasses. That makes the bottom of the form NOT show up. Decreasing the text size several steps DOES bring up the rest of the form.

Hope this makes what I was trying to tell you clearer.
Jane B.

Phyxius · August 28, 2008

schmoo wrote:

We did discuss that when we were throwing ideas around, but since Smuggy is chipping in it just made sense to keep it closer to "home."

Whew! The previous post scared me for a minute. My friend and I are getting ready to book flights to San Jose. One shootout and two mini shootouts in one year = sweet!

Also, with the costs of flights it's not really any cheaper to hit the central US either. Some cities/airlines offer reduced fare during certain seasons, but none of them are that cheap anymore. :cry

Jane B. · August 28, 2008

Phyxius wrote:

Whew! The previous post scared me for a minute. My friend and I are getting ready to book flights to San Jose. One shootout and two mini shootouts in one year = sweet!

Also, with the costs of flights it's not really any cheaper to hit the central US either. Some cities/airlines offer reduced fare during certain seasons, but none of them are that cheap anymore. :cry

Quote:
Originally Posted by Allen
How about holding it somewhere in the center of the US so the Eastern peeps could drive vs flying.:D

What I think Allen was trying to bring up is that it seems like everything (except the one in Scotland) has been in the far west and only the people in places like California have been close enough to DRIVE and NOT have to fly at all.
Jane B.

aktse · August 28, 2008

Jane B. wrote:

What I think Allen was trying to bring up is that it seems like everything (except the one in Scotland) has been in the far west and only the people in places like California have been close enough to DRIVE and NOT have to fly at all.
Jane B.[/i]

I have to respectfully disagree. There are been dgrin/smugmug/smuggy friends events all over the US

Shootouts:
#1 Yosemite (California)
#2 Bryce and Zion (Utah)
#3 Glacier National Park (Montana)
#4 Moab (Utah)

Workshops
Shay's WPBC - San Diego, Ca and Denver Co (planned for all over the US)
Muench Workshops - Wild Utah
Muench Workshops - Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Muench Workshops - Scotland
Muench Workshops - Print Workshops, Santa Barbara, Ca
Muench Workshops - Extreme Sierras (California)
Andy's Street Photography -- New York, New York
MI Wildlife Shootout -- Merritt Island, Florida

Etc.

DavidTO · August 28, 2008

We've had several things on the east coast. Andy's NYC workshop, the Shenandoah workshop, to name the two that come to mind.

EDIT: Wow, April!

You've got it nailed!

DavidTO · August 28, 2008

Hey, Schmoo?

How many signed up so far?

Jane B. · August 28, 2008

aktse wrote:

I have to respectfully disagree. There are been dgrin/smugmug/smuggy friends events all over the US

Shootouts:
#1 Yosemite (California)
#2 Bryce and Zion (Utah)
#3 Glacier National Park (Montana)
#4 Moab (Utah)

Workshops
Shay's WPBC - San Diego, Ca and Denver Co (planned for all over the US)
Muench Workshops - Wild Utah
Muench Workshops - Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Muench Workshops - Scotland
Muench Workshops - Print Workshops, Santa Barbara, Ca
Muench Workshops - Extreme Sierras (California)
Andy's Street Photography -- New York, New York
MI Wildlife Shootout -- Merritt Island, Florida

Etc.

Wellllll I happen to be thinking of the middle of the country as I am reasonably close (about an hour + or - depending on where in metro area you are going) to St. Louis. No real argument; just a different mindset based on location.

Jane B.

You're invited: Dgrin's 5-Year Birthday

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