[AGA-mcm] Feedback from Jay Luto

["jay luto" <jayluto@hotmail.com>]

Brief and honest feedback from your photographer.

AGA 2004 Convention was a great success and I want to deeply thank GWAPA 
(especially Ghazanfar,Rick,Sean) and AGA for all the prep work. After seeing 
how much work went into making this event so successful, I would think twice 
about volunteering as a host. Mr. Amano, Mr. Bedmaijster and Mike Senske 
provided top quality presentations. Oliver Knott workshop was OK. 
Unfortunately I missed Paul's workshop so I can't comment on it. Diana 
Waldstad's presentation was not "entertaining" at all. I don't think she is 
a good speaker and her communication skills are questionable. Her book and 
her knowledge is questioned by many but I guess its up to individual.

Trip to Aquarium, Barnes&Nobles and Aquarium Center was well organized. 
Thanks again !!!

This convention was more intense than Dallas. Is it good or bad, I don't 
know. I know that I lost few pounds for sure. I was able to relax more on 
the West Coast then in Washington. I was eating only once or twice daily and 
running around like maniac. Maybe because I took 3 gigs of pictures? Maybe 
b/c I was pulled in 10 different directions by friends and my paisan from 
Poland?

I want to thank everyone who came in contact with Marian Wojtaszek and had 
enough patience to give him brief attention. I had a full time job 
translating but it wasn't that bad after all.

As you probably know saturday night in Senke's room was a blast. Amano 
personally asked Marian to have a beer with him and wanted to spend some 
time with him alone (including Tomoko and me as translators). I was shocked. 
Unfortunately Bar was closed so we were forced to go to Senske's room. That 
didn't stop Amano from giving complements to Marian on his tank 
(paludarium/aqurium-biotope entry) and mentioning "hundred" times that his 
tank was #1 in that category. I was shocked again. They took some pictures 
together and had a 3-way conversation (japanese-enlish-polish) which was 
very interesting. He pointed out that when he went to Poland he was welcomed 
by 300 individuals waiting for his presentation (Poland 40million 
population). He didn't say a word about AGA attendance but I noticed few 
people were scratching their heads after that comment.

Mr. Amano asked for copies of my pictures and opportunity to see my 
photography work. I couldn't ask for more from this Convention.

I had a blast !!!!!!!!! This will be a hard one to match.

Regards,
Jay Luto


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