San Antonio/Austin GTG - DPChallenge Forums

09/22/2006 05:28:17 AM · #1

I really need to meet the infamous and delightfully quirky

Jutilda as well as the quiet but seemingly very friendly

TheresaA before I head off to Europe in November. Hence, I think we need a south central Texas get-together. I know

SandyP is out of town until the end of the month (more or less) and I'll be out of town the last week of September. So I'm looking at the 7th or 8th of October, though I do that it is a holiday weekend.

Anyone interested?

PhantomEWO?

dleach? Any suggestions as to where to go?

Yanko makes downtown Austin look quite interesting - I'd be willing to give that a shot, so to speak. There's always Gruene, which ain't exactly halfway in between, but it is in between. The Riverwalk, downtown SA, and the missions are other possibilities.

Discuss! :-)

09/22/2006 10:36:12 AM · #2

Bump.

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

09/23/2006 02:03:21 PM · #3

Bump for the weekend. Anyone? Or are y'all waiting for me to leave before we have a get together.... ;-)

cryingdragon

Canon EOS-10D

09/23/2006 02:04:09 PM · #4

Move it a little further north, and Jim and I might show up....

Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon

09/24/2006 07:21:19 PM · #5

Well I don't know about further north.... Austin is about as far north as I want to go on a weekend. Maybe you guys will have to come visit me in Germany....

Jutilda

Canon EOS-7D

09/24/2006 07:55:51 PM · #6

I think yanko and maybe even arsenal would come. I'm game. Holiday weekends don't mean much to me. Mike's in the car business, so he's always working. LOL

Let me know. I'll drive!!

09/24/2006 08:15:04 PM · #7

Woo hoo! That's pretty much a majority 'round these parts, right? :-)

So Austin or SA?

Army of nOne

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

09/24/2006 08:28:04 PM · #8

I may also be interested if it is in Austin. I will have a lot of school work to do that weekend, but if all goes well, I will have a brand new digital SLR by the time that weekend rolls around. It will be my first.

In fact, I already have two lenses for it (200 f2.8 and 50 f1.8) sitting in my apartment. Man I can't wait to get it! Sorry, tangent.

Point being, if it's in Austin, I can probably show too.

viajero

Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon

09/24/2006 08:32:58 PM · #9

I'd be up for it. I'm in Austin, but would be OK with San Antonio or somewhere in between. Saturday would be better than Sunday for me. There's a couple other guys at work who are DPC members; I'll see if they're interested.

Jutilda

Canon EOS-7D

Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon

09/24/2006 08:51:51 PM · #10

Heh, there's always carpooling. I have a 7 passenger Odyssey van. You bring Diet Cokes, I drive. ha ha ha ha

yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

09/24/2006 08:59:09 PM · #11

Shoot. I'll probably be in Dallas that weekend helping my mom move but I'm not 100% sure yet.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

09/25/2006 02:46:11 AM · #12

Originally posted by yanko:

Shoot. I'll probably be in Dallas that weekend helping my mom move but I'm not 100% sure yet.

Tell her to move the next weekend. :-)

love

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

09/25/2006 03:47:27 AM · #13

Hey, what about me?? I'm feeling kind of wallflowerish here! I would love to join! Also, this guy

srdanz might be interested as well...

Message edited by author 2006-09-25 07:48:33.

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09/25/2006 03:50:18 AM · #14

Originally posted by chispa:

Hey, what about me?? I'm feeling kind of wallflowerish here! I would love to join! Also, this guy srdanz might be interested as well...

By all means! I'm thinking I'm leaning towards Austin at this point, though there are some interesting grungy locations in San Antonio that might be worth exploring. Open to suggestions!

love

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

09/25/2006 04:06:27 AM · #15

I am up for anything from Dallas to Houston, basically the whole central area of texas! lol

SandyP

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM

09/27/2006 06:57:46 PM · #16

Hi guys! Count me in!

How 'bout maybe Gruene??? But I'm game to go to Austin if that's where it is too. Maybe me and Deb and Theresa could drive together. I have a Toyota Camry, so it doesn't hold too many people, but at least 3 besides me.

Woo hoo! I've always wanted to do this!

I can't do it Saturday 10/14 tho, so I hope we don't do it that weekend.

Thanks for getting this going, Deb!

10/02/2006 05:55:24 AM · #17

Bump!

OK, folks, this coming Saturday - 7 October. Need to know who pretty much wants to attend, and where. We could go to either downtown Austin or San Antonio to shoot for the "portrait without faces" challenge and see if we could get ourselves arrested for being a general nuisance... :-)

10/02/2006 07:42:19 AM · #18

And speaking of San Antonio/Austin, proud to say the area boasts the latest blue ribbon winner -

Yanko.

'Bout time, dude, don't you think? :-)

Army of nOne

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

10/02/2006 01:28:08 PM · #19

Any final word on where this is going to be held? I think the Pecan Street Festival is going on in Austin this weekend. Should be lots of people around downtown. Nothing particularly spectacular about the event photographically. Though I did do pretty well with this image last year.

What's going on in San Antonio? Or elsewhere that is under consideration?

Edited for neatness.

Message edited by author 2006-10-02 17:29:12.

10/02/2006 01:48:01 PM · #20

No word. Up for bids and ideas. A street festival might be interesting. I'm not sure what's going on in San Antonio this weekend. Maybe Sandy or Don will chime in - they're generally more in-the-know on that sort of thing.

Guys, are you out there?

viajero

Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon

10/02/2006 05:03:12 PM · #21

I'd be in for Saturday, October 7. Just to get something on the table for discussion I suggest the downtown Austin area in the afternoon and evening. Possible subjects include Town Lake bridges and runners, downtown skyline, old power plant, people on South Congress, and perhaps the state capitol.

It's getting late in the year, but the bats might still be around.

As alternate possibilities more towards San Antonio maybe Natural Bridge Caverns. I went there once long ago but have never tried any photography there. Costs $$ to enter as well.

The Wildflower Center in south Austin is open for photography but I'm not sure if there will be many flowers this time of year.

I talked to or emailed some other DPC guys that work on my floor.

brockmd is busy, never heard from

mitemouze, and

srdanz has soccer but is lurking on this thread and might be able to join up at some time.

Thoughts?

PhantomEWO

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

10/02/2006 06:03:02 PM · #22

Well gang,
I'm in the middle of getting my Texas Real Estate License and will be taking 12 hour per day classes every Fri/Sat & Sun for the next month. Weekends are shot for me till the end of Oct. From a couple of weeks ago back to a few years ago I was free 24/7 to do anything, someone needs to shake me back to reality, why in the world did I really want to be the Chief Photographer of a Real Estate newspaper during the day and a real estate agent the est of the time. Stupid ... stupid ... stupid but I'm having fun doing something ;)

10/02/2006 06:29:16 PM · #23

Silly you, indeed! What were you thinking?? We'll miss having you join us - I'm here until mid-November then I'm a dot. :-)

OK, I'm going to declare the location as "Austin". Now we need someone from Austin to suggest a convenient meeting place, preferably easy to get to off of 35 and with parking available. Let's set the meeting time for 2 pm so those of us in San Antonio have plenty of time to take care of morning chores and get up there.

So who's in?

viajero

Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon

10/03/2006 06:34:53 AM · #24

I'll suggest meeting by the capitol. On this page is a link to a PDF map of state parking lots, which are free on weekends.

Let's aim for lot 14 on that map, at 11th and Congress. Coming from San Antonio on I35, take the second exit after crossing the river. I don't remember what it says on the exit sign, maybe 6th-11th streets or something like that. From the feeder road turn left on 11th under the freeway. Just after you pass the capitol on your right the lot will be on your left.

From there we could drive to various places. There's usually lots of free parking on the weekends.

dleach