Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome Jean-Michel! Thanks for joining the group, I've enjoyed your gallery, particularly the series of La Mer, N.Y., Portraits and Clementine, great use of the light. I particularly liked these two: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jean-Michel/NEW+YORK/NY+SAUT.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jean-Michel/Mes+images/L1056280.jpg.html cheers Lluis http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll Blog: http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ El 15/10/2011, a las 21:04, Jean-Michel Mertz escribi?: > > > > > Hello everyone,I have registered at the LUG mailing list + gallery a > few days ago and posted a few pictures to > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jean-Michel/thanks > to Philippe Amard who very gracefully informed me of the > challenging topics and exciting pictures shared by LUG members. I > started taking pictures back in ... 1964 with a rangefinder camera > (an Ansco I believe it was), then I bought a Minolta X-1 and finally > switched to Leica gear (M6, IIIc, M8). I have done some lab work a > few years ago, this is probably why I don't believe, for the time > being, in bringing too many changes to the pictures I take. I have > no favourite themes I would work on for days but the way the light > transforms the world I live in is something I like to capture - > modestly! The reason why there are many pictures of the US in my > album is because I have family there - as well as in Switzerland, a > wonderful country for picture taking.I live in Strasbourg, in the > east of France, close to the German > and Swiss borders. A special thank you to Geoff Hopkinson who gave > me some very sound advice before I decided to move from film to > digital picture taking. I hope I'll be able to keep up with the > email volume I get ... almost every second! Thank you for your > comments and ideas - I'm still in the learning process. Jean-Michel > (Mertz) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information