I've been to a lot of pipe shows, so know how difficult it is to find people that you've met on forums and message boards but never seen. You ask around, and 1) no one knows their real name... "Oh yeah... Zebrasmoker! Great guy, right? Don't know his realworld name or what he looks like, though.... good luck!" or; 2) the person you ask doesn't frequent the board where his lifelong best friend John Smith uses the handle Zebrasmoker, so has no idea who you're talking about.
So, I thought, maybe a thread dedicated to "recently taken, real world looking" photos of those who plan on going to Chicago might help.
Though doing that would cost me a camera lens (my face cracks 'em like clockwork), it would be worth it to lessen my chance of standing next to, say, Oldgeezersmoker for twenty minutes in the banquet line, only to find out a week later that that had been the case. Or that we'd had adjacent hotel rooms and had nodded at each other in passing a dozen times. Or in a restaurant. Etc.
You get the idea.
Any interest? (Or a bad idea for some reason I can't think of)
So, I thought, maybe a thread dedicated to "recently taken, real world looking" photos of those who plan on going to Chicago might help.
Though doing that would cost me a camera lens (my face cracks 'em like clockwork), it would be worth it to lessen my chance of standing next to, say, Oldgeezersmoker for twenty minutes in the banquet line, only to find out a week later that that had been the case. Or that we'd had adjacent hotel rooms and had nodded at each other in passing a dozen times. Or in a restaurant. Etc.
You get the idea.
Any interest? (Or a bad idea for some reason I can't think of)