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Subject: [Leica] [Imagestore] Introducing myself
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:57:56 +0530
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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)
>
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>
>


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