[Leica] Iran Update

[Steve Barbour]

> On Apr 4, 2016, at 9:38 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Peso:
> 
> An update from Iran.  Wi-fi is very iffy and I had to get a VPN to get
> Facebook or see my own site so communication has been limited.
> 
> We are having a great time!  After an initial problem with my SL lens,
> which was remedied by advice from Leica, all 3 cameras are working fine.

congratulations on your success, very happy that all is going well, getting help from Leica can be like getting blood from a stone.

That you pulled it off,  the SL and the other cameras are  all working, a bit of a miracle.


> I did have a problem with the external hard drive that I'm using for a
> back-up.  It seems to be working fine now, but because of that, I'm not
> downloading any cards until they get completely filled-up so I have no
> photos to show yet.
> 
> The week in Istanbul photographing Syrian refugees was shortened by a day
> and a half because of delayed and cancelled flights but I did manage to get
> in a couple of days with Syrian children and families.  If you ever run
> across a tour agency called Urban Adventures, it's well-worth going on
> their tours in many cities of the world to photograph ordinary people and
> families.
> .
> Our Iranian guide is wonderful!  On the way in from the airport, we stopped
> and :shared picnics with Iranian families. Then he managed to get me and my
> cameras into the Ayatollah's Tomb where photography is normally forbidden.
> He has continued to do that everywhere, getting me permission to shoot in
> forbidden places and finding Iranians who are happy to share with us and be
> photographed.


Good work, happy to hear all this, and congratulations, I look forward to seeing the results.
> 
> Today we are in Hamedan.  Yesterday we visited Arak, the village where we
> used to live.  It's now a megalopolis with hundreds of high-rise apartment
> buildings.  We found the area where we used to live but couldn't find the
> house.  Tom went by the plant where he used to work but when we lived here,
> it was in the middle of the desert by itself.  Now it is surrounded by
> industry and commerce in a busy industrial complex.
> 
> Our guide has promised many more adventures.  It's cold here but beautiful
> with lots of snow in the mountains.
> 
> I'll post photos when I get back home!

Enjoy the trip, when do you get back?  We will be in France shortly then Spain, so next contact may be after.

Don’t forget, keep shooting,


:-)

steve


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