NANFA CON 2018 Adventures & Photos

 with the added benefit that I now know that you don’t actually look like your avatar!

Oh no! It is worse isn't it?

BTW Gerald, your ID/specimen photos are getting quite good. I like them.

I wish I looked as good as my avatar!

It was a pleasure to meet and begin to get to know all of my quad-mates - with the added benefit that I now know that you don’t actually look like your avatar!

 

It's amazing what cosmetic surgeons can do these days.

Thanks Matt -- those were my two least-bad shots of the trip, after I manually blacked-out all the tank edges, water spots, reflections, etc.

 

BTW Gerald, your ID/specimen photos are getting quite good. I like them.

 my two least-bad shots of the trip

Look for the best of the worst, that's my m.o. as well! I am a big fan of your photos too Gerald, good work!. 

I brought home two posters that I also don't have room to hang - My poster collection is housed in a display-page thing that I got from an art store that was going out of business, where you can flip the the poster-sized "pages" to browse the prints.  But my favorite items I got from the auction were two books of historical significance which for some strange reason I didn't own.  John Quinn's "Our Native Fishes" and Tom Baugh's "A Net Full of Natives".  The former is a particularly pleasurable read, as Quinn's writing is top shelf.  I really appreciate good writing when I encounter it. 

I have the Quinn book, I should probably page through it again, been a while. I have seen a couple of you guys mention "A Net Full of Natives". I hadn't ever heard of it nor seen it. Is it a "must have" that I have been missing?

You will probably lead a long, full life even if you never read "Netful..." But it is certainly a book that broadened my finny horizons and stirred my imagination in my youth and I look forward to picking up another copy some day. I'd put it on a short list of books that truly influenced how I view the natural world; up there with Sand County Almanac, Cadillac Desert,and Sibley' Guide to Birds. All were different books that I read at different times in my life, but for their own reasons really shaped my understanding/appreciation for our natural world.