Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:34:01 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at panix.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave Photos
Cc: <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>,Capclave 2006 <capclave at yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 12:59 PM 10/25/2006, Michael Walsh wrote:
>Keith Stokes of Kansas City took photos:
>http://midamericon.org/photoarchive/06capclave5.htm

Gads.  You know I've been in too many photos when I get cranky about my
name being spelled wrong.  We also need to send in a couple of
captions.  Time to start getting Sam and Judy's names out there, that way
they'll never escape.

Meanwhile, it looks like the reception was a roaring success.  Four pages
of photos!  The best I'd hoped for was a mild start to what I hoped would
become a Capclave tradition.  What I fully expected was for it to be a
bust.  As it was I heard the noise as I came off the elevator and thought
it was the other party, then that no, that was in the ballroom to the
right.  I still didn't believe it until I was actually looking into the
reception.

I'm not even gloating, I'm grinning in delight.  I'd wanted to give
Capclaves -- the plural is intentional -- something that would last.  What
with that one incident at Capclave once again starting all sorts of fussing
I'd forgotten the neat things we did.  Who'd have thought that so many
people would dress up, evening gowns, tuxedos and all.  Okay, we had the
most innovative programming I've ever seen or heard of but as dramatic
things go . . . this is so great!

Other comments, proving that I looked at more than the reception photos.

On the first page Sam Pierce looks like a stern principal telling Andy,
"You know you're not allowed to have candy.  Put it in the cup."
Meanwhile, Ted White looks as if he's having a lousy time.

On the next, there are far too many possible captions for the picture of
David Louis Edelman and Mindy Klasky; Walsh looks as if he's falling asleep
(why am I not surprised?); and our dodo looks absolutely wonderful between
those two stiffs.

On the second Saturday page: I have to admit that Michael Copabianco looks
better in a tuxedo, as he was in the SFWA suite.  And although Ben looks
like a demon it could have been far worse: I was behind the camera man.

Fourth:  Ah, yes.  Once again M. Walsh is falling asleep.  Come to think of
it, in that set only the panelists look particularly awake.

Of the reception pictures, the best is the one of Elaine.  It's not only
that I absolutely covet her suite, it's that she looks as if she's vainly
trying to suppress bursting into laughter.