Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jean-Michel, Welcome fronm sunny (and hot) India! I enjoyed your gallery. Keep posting! Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Jean-Michel Mertz <j2m46 at hotmail.fr>wrote: > 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) > > _______________________________________________ > Imagestore at leica-users.org > >