Re: [Leica] Portland in a shotglass

[Pitak Chenkosol <pitakc@ee.pdx.edu>]

> 
> Bill Larsen wrote:
> ><Snip> 
> > more powerful is some of his documentary work done during the 40's and 50's.
> > My real question is "Has the Portland area become one of the centers of
> > photographic innovation?"><Snip> 
> 
> I think there are about a dozen of us from Portland.
> 
> Damian Dlugolecki
> Dave Rodgers
> Michael Leitheiser
> Pitak Chenkosol
> I think Lucian Chis
> Others are lurkers but i sense their presence.
> Sorry if i forgot anybody and I have Leica using friends here not on the LUG

There is also John de Vries (a Leica user) who I met a week ago. I am not sure
if he is on the LUG. I am sure there are many other Leica users here but they
may not be aware of the LUG existence.


> (yet). We had Minor White here in the 60's and he started a gallery here.
> We've go Weiden and Kennedy here the most influential and "best" advertising
> agency in the world here.
> The fact that they would be located here instead of a major city is bizarre but
> there you are!
> Gus Van Sant uses Leicas and is here.
> Here in Portland besides lots of stuff to shoot we have Powells City of books
> and Camera world both about 5 blocks from each other.
> So we have stuff going on.
> The Columbia River Gorge my be the most seanic spot in the usa and it is mintues
> from here.
> The Eastern Oregon high country desert is wonderfull.
> A film company doing a film in Orgon can reproduce just about any type locale
> right in here in the same state.


> It's not just a rainforest anymore!
> Mark Rabiner
>


We are also known as the "Silicon Forest" due to the existence of many high tech 
companies. Companies like Intel, Maxim Integrated Products, Tektronix,
Triquint Semiconductor, Dupont Photomask, Fujitsu, IDT, Planar Systems,
Sequent Computer System (now part of IBM), E-Tech System, Site, FLIR System, and
many others that I cannot think up the names right now are located within 10-20 miles
radius from Portland.


Pitak