Comments on: Pogo Printer Giveaway Contest

By: todd

todd — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:38:06 +0000

I picked up photography a year and a half ago as a therapeutic way of dealing with a devastating divorce. My photo-therapy has moved beyond introspection to where I want to do more portraiture. The pogo-print is the perfect way to thank the people I come across who become spur of the moment models.

By: Bruce Hemingway

Bruce Hemingway — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:22:39 +0000

Actually, I bought a Pogo to evaluate. I teach at Univ. of Washington in Computer Science; this little device will be perfect for use in our Third-world computing project class, to print out information from cell-phones in projects under development for health-care field practitioners. The course is called “Technology for Low-Income Regions”.

By: imajez

imajez — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:23:30 +0000

My name is Jez and I’m a photo addict.
And it would nice to have something to help calm the craving of taking more and more pictures. I hear prints are an excellent way of weaning oneself off the craving to push that shuter button again and again and again and again an again and again and…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:45:13 +0000

When I was in India I took the names of a couple of people who let me take their picture and promised to send them copies. I followed through but I have one picture with a lost address. Kind of a bummer and I hate that I wasn’t able to get the guy his picture. A Pogo would solve that next time!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctirpak/2421697803/in/set-72157604595515982/

By: clavel

clavel — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:49:53 +0000

Hi my name is Clavel, and I would love a pogo to take along on the next trip my brother and I will be going to Suriname in South America, we were thinking of bringing along polaroid cameras to hand of pictures to the locals whom we are going to visit in the inland, but this would be so much cooler…

Thanks for doing this and I hope whomever gets this please come back here to report how you used and liked this little gem, so that I can know if perhaps I should go out to buy one

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:41:28 +0000

Hi David,

I am Dave, a person who loves photography, particularly in capturing the beauty of the world and it’s people.

On a trek in a remote part of Kangchenjunga, Nepal, I was approached by a villager who had seen the camera around my neck. Through one of our crew he asked me to take a shot of him and his family. There were no towns or places that he could get a photo done and this was his hope that I would be able to take a reasonable shot and send him an image.

There was such pride in his family as they posed for the shot, and complete faith in the villager that I would send him the image. I got him to write his address in Sanskrit on a piece of paper, which I pasted onto the envelope with his photo when I got home. I never knew if he recieved that photo, or indeed if all of his young family are still alive.
If I had a POGO I could have given him a photo on the spot and we both would have got so much more from the experience.

Thanks for the blog and safe travels.

By: Larry Larsen

Larry Larsen — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:17:34 +0000

I think that this devise would be a great way to give something back to all of the beautiful friendly people who I have encountered around the world. We all need to find ways to share our humanity and thus, make the world a better place.
Larry Larsen

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:13:32 +0000

Hi David,
I have worked the last 2 summers for the Salvation Army as a photography at their local summer camp. These kids come from inner city Cleveland, which ranks near the top of the list of “poorest big cities” in the US. I would love to be able to give them a quick print of the portraits I take to highlight their camp experience.

Thanks for everything you have done for the community

By: dano

dano — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:13:59 +0000

Hi David,

I’m dano from Vancouver. I primarily shoot snowboarders going down big steep faces. We often spend time at the bottom looking at the lines prior to shooting to map out the danger zones and safe zones. At that point the athlete has to commit the line to memory. Unfortunately, the lines often look ver different from the top than from the bottom and riders sometimes get themselves into dangerous predicaments.

I would like to be able to print out a copy of the line at the bottom so that they would have an actual reference map for their line before the descent instead of just their memory.

Thanks, love the blog.

By: Mel Carll

Mel Carll — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:16:46 +0000

Hey David:
My name is Mel, and I would love to own a Pogo “On the House” as nothing is cooler than taking a shot of the kids, plugging in the printer, and bam, here you go kids, take this to school and share….. WOW is all they can say.