Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted and all, thank you for the great welcome. Lots of nice folks and photos here. mc On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:42:16 -0700, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote: > Hello Max, > Welcome to the zoo! :-) You'll find us a wild and wooly bunch on > topics covering the world and the people on it. Occasionally we > touch > on Leica subjects! :-) > > Even though we're a motley crew such as we are, we're a very > wonderful group of people who are quite honestly a "world class > family!" If an unfortunate event should happen to one of the crew or > within their family, everyone feels it." > > And as in any family, we kind of snarl at each other on occasion. > Which in 99.9% of the time are merely meaningless words as brother to > brother or sisters to a bunch of brothers. :-) Although some of us > have had the pleasure of meeting and greeting with a name on screen, > a > warm hand shake and face to face warmth of meeting a friend. We trust > maybe we'll have a similar opportunity with you at one of the > gatherings that occur across Planet Earth occasionally. > > But be aware we have a crazy thing at a gathering, it's called "A > Leica Stacking event." Have no fear it's always done with the > greatest > of care and I don't believe we've ever had a complete "crash & burn" > of Leica's. :-) But do practice holding your breathe as this event > can > give you the shakes when there are 10 or more Leica M's stacked one > on > the other in some precarious fashion. Well it kind of looks that way! > :-) > > C&C's "comments & critiques" are asked for by some when posting a > photo. Often these open great discussion and many of us learn > something we never knew about a technique or other bit in > photography, > despite some of us having a longtime playing in this wonderful world > of photography. C&C's are never personal about each others > photos..... > these are offered to assist a fellow photographer to become a better > photographer. And we all want to become that! > > If you haven't yet met our wonderful saloon keeper, the great one at > the helm of this list, Mr. Brian Reid of California. You will find > he's quite a nice quiet sort of chap. If you screw-up in bad mouthing > and or foul language you will find him to become un-gentle. > > As we've all offered in previous posts, glad to have you aboard! > > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > tedgrantphoto.com > Victoria, CANADA. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Max Cooper maxcooperphoto.com darktopography.com (828) 808-7777