Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]welcome aboard! look forward to seeing through your eyes viewing would be easier and quicker if you would shrink fie sizes--100-200 kb is good enough for most quick looks slow loads reduce viewership nice photos ric On Oct 15, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Jean-Michel Mertz 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) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information