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Dates 1st - 3rd February, 2002

Venue Heathrow Park Hotel, London, England

Organizers Wolf Events

Guests Lexa Doig, Tom McBeath, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping

Notes Some of my photographs from this event are not quite as good as I would have hoped. This is largely for three reasons:

Photography was allowed during only the first 10 minutes or so of each guest talk, limitting the quantity of pictures that I could acquire of each guest. I suspect that this will become a widely used rule for future events.

When photographing the guests during their talks, I was seated a considerable distance from the center of the stage, resulting in the majority of my pictures being 'profile' shots.

Perhaps most damaging was that my camera's focussing mechanism has somehow become incorrectly aligned, resulting in the vast majority of my pictures from this event being slightly out of focus. I expect this problem to be entirely resolved (by using a newer, better camera) before my next convention.

I confess to very much liking '04Doig.jpg'. Perhaps that's because it is in focus!
'05PokeGone.jpg' depicts a man sporting a T-shirt that indicates that, like myself, he hates a certain annoying little yellow b*****d. Kudos.
'30FancyDress.jpg' on page 3 shows the well-deserved winning entry in Saturday night's fancy dress competition.
Very late on Saturday night (actually around 4:25 on Sunday morning), we constructed our first "tower". Although not nearly as impressive as another group's achievement at last year's SG-3 event ('36Legacy.jpg'), I am still pleased with our first effort, which can be seen in '31Tower' on page 3. Our group at the time, including the people responsible for the tower's construction, can be seen in '32Group.jpg'. This picture was taken - by a member of hotel staff - at 4:45 a.m.
'33Starfury.jpg' on page 3, which shows the Starfury Conventions desk outside the dealers' room, is notable in that one of my photos can be seen on the wall!
A visit to a Wolf Events' Stargate convention would not be complete without getting a picture of myself in the "stargate". Such an image can be seen in '35Stargate.jpg' on page 3.
I have included '36Illusion.jpg' on page 3 because I'm not sure who fabricated the image. It would seem to show Jimmy, known to any U.K. convention-goer, apparently drinking a pint of water! This simply cannot be the case.

01Shanks.jpg	02Doig.jpg	03Shanks.jpg	04Doig.jpg
05PokeGone.jpg	06OpeningCeremony.jpg	07McBeath.jpg	08OpeningCeremony.jpg
09Tapping.jpg	10Tapping.jpg	11Tapping.jpg	12McBeath.jpg

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*Dates*	1st - 3rd February, 2002
*Venue*	Heathrow Park Hotel, London, England
*Organizers*	Wolf Events
*Guests*	Lexa Doig, Tom McBeath, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping
*Notes*	Some of my photographs from this event are not quite as good as I would have hoped. This is largely for three reasons: Photography was allowed during only the first 10 minutes or so of each guest talk, limitting the quantity of pictures that I could acquire of each guest. I suspect that this will become a widely used rule for future events. When photographing the guests during their talks, I was seated a considerable distance from the center of the stage, resulting in the majority of my pictures being 'profile' shots. Perhaps most damaging was that my camera's focussing mechanism has somehow become incorrectly aligned, resulting in the vast majority of my pictures from this event being slightly out of focus. I expect this problem to be entirely resolved (by using a newer, better camera) before my next convention. I confess to very much liking '04Doig.jpg'. Perhaps that's because it is in focus! '05PokeGone.jpg' depicts a man sporting a T-shirt that indicates that, like myself, he hates a certain annoying little yellow b*****d. Kudos. '30FancyDress.jpg' on page 3 shows the well-deserved winning entry in Saturday night's fancy dress competition. Very late on Saturday night (actually around 4:25 on Sunday morning), we constructed our first "tower". Although not nearly as impressive as another group's achievement at last year's SG-3 event ('36Legacy.jpg'), I am still pleased with our first effort, which can be seen in '31Tower' on page 3. Our group at the time, including the people responsible for the tower's construction, can be seen in '32Group.jpg'. This picture was taken - by a member of hotel staff - at 4:45 a.m. '33Starfury.jpg' on page 3, which shows the Starfury Conventions desk outside the dealers' room, is notable in that one of my photos can be seen on the wall! A visit to a Wolf Events' Stargate convention would not be complete without getting a picture of myself in the "stargate". Such an image can be seen in '35Stargate.jpg' on page 3. I have included '36Illusion.jpg' on page 3 because I'm not sure who fabricated the image. It would seem to show Jimmy, known to any U.K. convention-goer, apparently drinking a pint of water! This simply cannot be the case.

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