DPC Southeastern Meet Ideas - DPChallenge Forums

06/09/2003 04:20:59 AM · #1

Greetings...

I would like to try to organize a southeastern US DPC meet for the spring of 2004. Sometime in March or April. I'm looking for ideas of places to have it and here are a few:

Savannah, GA
Atlanta, GA
Charleston, SC
Wilmington, NC
Pigeon Forge, TN

Any other ideas?

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

06/09/2003 02:02:01 PM · #2

*bump*

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

06/09/2003 02:06:55 PM · #3

Pigeon Forge is good.
Atlanta would be okay.

Charleston or Savannah may be better for the Florida folks (or are they considered part of the Southeast, yet?) ;-)

Fujifilm FinePix E510 Zoom

06/09/2003 02:50:24 PM · #4

Old Salem would be another decent opportunity...

Gracechild7

06/09/2003 02:55:23 PM · #5

-tempted.... so tempted...-

It's a long ways off to make any firm plans, but hey, it could be cool. I say somewhere nearish to Florida so that I won't have to drive more than one day (even if it is a 16 hour day or so...)

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

06/09/2003 03:05:03 PM · #6

This is one of the reasons i wanted to try to plan far in advance.... to give people the opportunity to plan if they wanted to come or not...

I like the idea of Savannah simply because I have never been....

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

06/09/2003 03:08:19 PM · #7

I've never been to Savannah before either, though I've heard it is awesome. Depending on when, Bernard and I might be able to make almost any of those locations

Gracious

06/09/2003 09:51:35 PM · #8

I like the idea of Savannah too. I'm sure we'd find lots of ops. A year away is fine with me. Gives me time to plan.
Grayce

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

06/09/2003 11:08:14 PM · #9

Any other votes for Savannah? I like that idea :)

indigo997

Nikon D70

06/09/2003 11:42:45 PM · #10

Karma likes Pigeon Forge because she can go shopping! Actually, Gatlinburg has the Hard Rock, the aquarium, and is right next to the Smoky Mt Park entrance.
Knoxville is the geographic center of the Eastern United States and is within a day's drive of over half the country's population. I-40 and I-75 meet here, and a third of America's population is within 500 miles.

Atlanta, GA 213 miles
Charlotte, NC 244 miles
Cincinnati, OH 260 miles
Memphis, TN 392 miles
Nashville, TN 180 miles
New Orleans, LA 600 miles
Orlando, FL 689 miles

Nashville is pretty central too.
I'm 317 miles from Savannah so that'd be cool with me. That drive through Georgia is just so dang boring.
I just thought that if you did it a little further north you might get some ppl coming down as well as coming up. Or are there not any ppl up north that we wanna see anyway ;P

OneSweetSin

Nikon D3000

06/09/2003 11:56:35 PM · #11

Try Pigeon Forge I believe it is the first weekend in April when Dollywood opens for the season. I just saw the Dollywood show the other night on the Travel Channel and with all the cameras around here we would have a ball with the entire Parton Family including Dolly preforming there that weekend.

indigo997

Nikon D70

06/10/2003 12:05:50 AM · #12

April 5-May 11 is the festival of nations at Dollywood. If you're gonna go to Dollywood, that's the time to do it. Knoxville also has the Dogwood Arts Festival in April.

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

06/10/2003 12:10:16 AM · #13

Not to mention that the bass fishing is best when the dogwoods are blooming!

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

06/10/2003 06:27:16 AM · #14

Indi, if we did Tennessee, would Gatlinburg or Pigeon Forge be best? I haven't been to either place in a long time. Both of those are closer for me than any of the other places mentioned so far...

Alecia

Canon EOS-10D

06/10/2003 09:34:59 AM · #15

my vote goes for savannah--what a gorgeous place and packed with cool history and cool photo ops! ;)

magnetic9999

Canon EOS-20D

06/10/2003 09:51:00 AM · #16

bein' as how it's gonna be that far ahead, me and the missus might could make it, too ...

(like the simulated 'Southeastern' speaking style there? ;) )...

jimmyn4

Canon EOS-7D

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

06/10/2003 10:25:31 AM · #17

I'd be interested in coming. Savannah would be my choice but does anyone have thoughts about Charleston SC?

CreativeFlyPhoto

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

06/10/2003 10:29:53 AM · #18

i could even swing with savannah ... with enough time i can plan to take a trip :) .. i normally take a vacation in march anyways .. maybe i could go up there instead :)

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

06/10/2003 11:11:32 AM · #19

Narrowing down the options:

Pigeon Forge / Gatlinburg
Savannah
Charleston

Do we need to add anymore?

jab119

Canon EOS-70D

06/10/2003 11:24:52 AM · #20

Even though Im not from that area (the south east/east) I would like to make the trip. I have only driven through Charleston and that was long ago.

But any of those places would be nice to visit...

James

06/10/2003 11:30:42 AM · #21

I would like to go to any of them, but I'm leaning towards the Tennesse locations because they are more centrally located. I think the photo ops in Charleston and Savannah would be a lot better tho. But Dollywood would be a lot of fun :)

OneSweetSin

Nikon D3000

06/10/2003 12:18:16 PM · #22

Originally posted by jmsetzler:

If you go with Tennesee you get the attention of those in the "Mid Atlantic and Mid West also cause it is so centrally located.

I have been trying to get to Pigeon Forge now for the last 9 years and I just need a boost other than telling the husband I wanna go to Dollywood!