It is photo convention time now and I travelled to Nelson via the Lewis Pass. Near Springs Junction I spotted the car "GR8 P1X" so at a One Way Bridge where we had to stop, I jumped out and said a quick hello to Barry Smith FPSNZ and his wife Betty. Coffee at Murchison? Yes!
Sitting having a coffee I told Barry about Ron Willems being at the model railway convention, and then Barry (and Betty) advised that Barry has a lot of model railway equipment, mainly Fleischman.
Then it was on to Nelson, driving passed some of the old alignment for the Nelson line abandoned in September 1955 (I was about 7 months old then). Arriving in Nelson I went to check out the good bookshop Page & Blackmore. Just two doors down the street I spotted my Blue Damselfly print in the National Bank window. My print, from last year's PSNZ National competition was selected as one of the 30 prints for the 2009-2010 National Bank travelling exhibition. It will be in National Bank Riccarton sometime in May.
At the official opening ceremony I caught up with Graham Collins from the Hutt Valley. His second PSNZ convention (the first was quite a few years ago), but he has also been to every NZAMRC convention since 1982 and every full AMRA since 1981 or 1983. Ron Willems talked to Barry Smith about Fleishman and we all talked about model railways in general (not much on photography).
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