{"id":4393,"date":"2026-04-06T06:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:49:53","slug":"the-46th-pspcs-sale-swap-photographica-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/?p=4393","title":{"rendered":"The 46th PSPCS Sale, Swap &amp; Photographica Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 46th PSPCS Sale, Swap &amp; Photographica Show happened this past Saturday in Kent, Washington. I&#8217;ve been before \u2014 last year, actually \u2014 but that was a blitz trip. Drive up Friday night, one night in a hotel, doors open at the show, load up the car, drive home. Barely counted as leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time I did it properly. Five days. A real vacation. Which, if I&#8217;m being honest, I needed more than I realized. The closest thing I&#8217;d had to time off in recent memory was the three and four day weekends I took off when my father died. That&#8217;s not a vacation. That&#8217;s just grief with nowhere to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I drove up Thursday and checked into an Airbnb that turned out to be genuinely cool \u2014 the kind of place that makes you feel at home. Friday I spent in downtown Tacoma. Never been. Walked around with both film and digital, no agenda, just looking, but I did check out a few antique stores.  Downtown Tacoma felt like a hybrid of Portland and San Fran, pleasantly familiar, comfortable, relaxed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday morning, the show. The PSPCS draws serious collectors and serious sellers, and the 46th edition didn&#8217;t disappoint. I came away with a handful of cameras, including a few things I purchased from Dan Cuny, a regular on the <a href=\"https:\/\/camerosity.podbean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Camerosity<\/a> podcast (last year I purchased a mint Nikon F4 at the Portland swap, one that he&#8217;d previously owned as well).  After the show I drove around Washington for the afternoon, stopped at a few antique stores, went back, and cleaned the AirBnB up for my awesome host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home today, Sunday. Four nights, three states of mind: restless, present, reluctant to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait until next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers, Aslynn<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 46th PSPCS Sale, Swap &amp; Photographica Show happened this past Saturday in Kent, Washington. I&#8217;ve been before \u2014 last year, actually \u2014 but that was a blitz trip. Drive up Friday night, one night in a hotel, doors open at the show, load up the car, drive home. Barely counted as leaving. This time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4394,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}