2008 PUG themes - revised

[Adam Maas]

Scott Loveless wrote:
> Eactivist at aol.com wrote:
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> I don't get 'Tis the Season being for February  and Red Shirt sounds very
> obscure. Don't get it at all.
> 
> Rest look  good.
> 
> Marnie aka Doe   :-)
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> 
> OK.  Those are valid concerns and I have answers that hopefully will 
> come across as logical.
> 
> In the past, seasonal themes often seemed to be due right at the time we 
> needed to be shooting them.  So for "tis the season", which will 
> probably involve some Holiday shooting, I pushed it back to February so 
> that everyone would have time to shoot and edit their photos.  Same for 
> Nature/Lanscape.  Lots of us like to shoot fall foliage in October. 
> Placing that theme in December gives us plenty to work on the photos.
> 
> Red Shirt comes from the "Red Shirt School of Photography".  Wikipedia 
> describes it better than I can: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Shirt_School_of_Photography.  I think 
> it sounds like a whole lot of fun.
> 
> 

And here I was thinking I'd need to find an Away Team member to kill off. Red Shirt has a very different meaning amongst SF and Fantasy fans ;-)

-Adam