Ten years on APUG

[Tom Kershaw]

Hello all,

This is not really an introduction but realise that today marks 10 years since I joined up to APUG. A lot has changed here and in the photographic world in that time, and members come and go but this is still a really valuable forum and the one I concentrate on, I can't follow everywhere... Hopefully new members can continue to ask questions and learn while building on the more established APUG community.

Looking forward to the next 10 years,

Tom

 

[Jeff Kubach]

It's nice to hear that members like you have been around for a while.

Jeff

 

[Jerevan]

Yeah, I am soon "turning ten" too - hopefully we'll be able to hang around at least another ten years, Tom!

Good to see people who keep on going ...

 

[Tom Kershaw]

It's nice to hear that members like you have been around for a while.

Jeff

Thanks, although I don't have as many posts as some.

Tom

 

[Toffle]

Congratulations! I am very thankful for the members who were here to help when I first started, and I am glad to see how many are still active participants on the board. I do wonder where some of our more um, colourful characters have gone. (but not so much that I actually miss some of them. ) I hope to be having this conversation again in another three years when my ten year anniversary rolls around.

Tom, a low post count is not necessarily a bad thing. There are some who have surpassed you in their first month on APUG, with hardly a single post worth reading.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[shutterboy]

10 years??!! *respect* Thank you Tom for being around to answer my stupid questions, patiently. Stay around for another 10x10 years

 

[removed account4]

great to see you sticking around as well tom
yeah, low post count is nothing to sneeze at.
most of my posts seem to be utter nonsense
and if i had half the good sense and restraint that you have ...

see you in 10!

 

[frank]

Newbie.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I hit my 10 year next May.

 

[MattKing]

Us nine year olds really look up to the older generation.

Thanks Tom for the reminder, and all your good posts over the years.

 

[DWThomas]

Congratulations! This month marks eight years for me which I find hard to believe. As alluded to above, don't sweat over the post count, quality trumps quantity.

 

[Black Dog]

Down colourful hills

Congratulations! I am very thankful for the members who were here to help when I first started, and I am glad to see how many are still active participants on the board. I do wonder where some of our more um, colourful characters have gone. (but not so much that I actually miss some of them. ) I hope to be having this conversation again in another three years when my ten year anniversary rolls around.

Tom, a low post count is not necessarily a bad thing. There are some who have surpassed you in their first month on APUG, with hardly a single post worth reading.

Cheers,
Tom

Respect and congratulations Tom! Toffle....I remember some of the more ,erm, 'colourful' characters well- Aggie, Jorge, Doc Holliday and all I salute you one and all.

 

[David Brown]

Cheers. I passed my tenth earlier this year. Good thing we all look exactly the same ...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Congrats! I am not there yet.

 

[Prest_400]

Cheers! Tempus fugit.

I remember debating whether to join the 31st of December or the 1st of January, I opted for the latter. I joined at a quite tender young age.
This January has been my 5th year in here. Indeed time passes fast.
My 10 will be in 2018-19 then, which realistically isn't far away.

APUG is a great community and many more years to come for all of us in here.

 

[ic-racer]

My darkroom was running at full speed in 2004 but at the time I did not know what "Analog Photography" meant. I had never heard of it, so I was not a reader or member back then.

 

[munz6869]

Congratulations!

Marc!

 

[eclarke]

I joined exactly 10 years ago..

 

[Konical]

Good Evening,

I just checked and can't believe that it was in 2003 that I joined. It's good to see that various others have also been here for quite a while.

Konical

 

[Tom Kershaw]

Respect and congratulations Tom! Toffle....I remember some of the more ,erm, 'colourful' characters well- Aggie, Jorge, Doc Holliday and all I salute you one and all.

The relative lack of the more 'colourful' characters of the past has changed the dynamic of the place, but I think APUG has succeeded in attracting a broad range of people and interests.

One slight gripe though is that over the years I've occasionally received an e-mail from a non-member who has seen one of my posts here on some subject or other, and after I've made the effort of responding properly, haven't received anything back in reply...

Tom

 

[Gary892]

Tom,

I also checked and my 10 year anniversary is on 06/14/2014, so about 9 days away.

Gary

 

[mr rusty]

Oh dear! time slips away. I am sure it's only a month or so that I wrote something like "although I'm still a newbie....", just checked my join date - nearly 5 years! I still feel that I have so much to learn, so the question might be when do you stop being a newbie? Congrats to all the old hands who stick around.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Congrats! My 11 years here was last January!

 

[Eric Rose]

Well I guess I'm a senior in more than one respect.

 

[Wayne]

For several years I heard people on the intertubes talking about an apug but had no idea what it was. Otherwise I'd have been here well over ten. I'm going on 17 years at LFF.