[Leica] NYLUG Meeting

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

We had a great NYLUG meeting yesterday with the outdoor temperature being in
the 90's. Today its even hotter.
At the School of the International Center of Photography School
The new location for the new Get Smart movie or should have been.
Few of the people going to the bathroom ever made it back.
One of the airlocks didn't recognize them and decompressed.
Or I think it was the lasers right outside the Platinum printing room.

Lugger Philip Forrest of Philadelphia, PA and before that New Mexico did the
first presentation.
First though he told us about his tour of Iraq in the Navy.
It was a life changing experience....
for us to experience this presentation.
Some great imagery; and a notable and rare dedication to Leica use.
With a little Nikon thrown in.

Tina Manley I knew a bit better and longer from the LUG; a decade perhaps.
And had just met her and her husband in Rochester in October.
But I thought I had a grasp of her work.
Its effect in a concentrated image show like this was unpredictably strong.
I'm sure Tina will have books out soon and be thought of as one of the
formooust photographers of our era; and we'll be able to say we knew her
when. Telling her which lens cap to use.

Afterward we went down the street and sat at not a round table but a
rectangular one. We all had a great time and talk. And the air-conditioning
was beyond reproach. I'm almost giddy thinking about the air conditioning.
I got the sword fish. No sword. Not even an umbrella!
Could have used both for my subway trip back.

Great to see everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!




mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner