Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:16 AM 98-03-01 -0500, you wrote: >Ian, >You are really fortunate, from my point of view, to be in a place with such >marvelous visual possibilities! >Are you there on a 'job' or did you decide to run away to an exotic and >isolated place!? >I'm not trying to be nosey...just a little nosey! >dwpost@msn.com > > Hello Dan, I too consider myself lucky to be here on most days - on some other days I would like to be on the first plane out of here. My first trip to Nepal was in 1992 when I did a short (one month) contract here for the Canadian Government, while I was on my way to Inner Mongolia for another contract that I was working on. The entire family came back to Nepal in February of 1993 for a contract that I was working on for the Asian Development Bank and the Swiss. It involved building four large technical schools in various parts of the country, upgrading some current facilities as well as all aspects of training that go along with projects like this. My contract finished in the early part of 1996 but my wife works with and American company (we're Canadian) so we just stayed on. Since then I have turned my part time hobby into a full time business and have been working on my photography ever since. I have my own b&w darkroom set up in the house and do all of the work from shooting through to the final framing. As far as running away goes - I think I have been doing that all of my life. After doing a series of prepackaged tours with the Canadian military I was hooked on travel and we have worked overseas as often as possible ever since. There are benefits such as not paying taxes anywhere but at the same time it is very difficult to get photography supplies so I have to bring everything in with me. I always leave with empty suitcases and return with them full. We will be in Nepal until June 1999 and if everything works out we will be moving to London, England. To keep this on topic - I work with Leica M's. Speaking of which - I have had some trouble with a new M6 that I bought last year (I will tell you the whole story when it is finally settled with Leica in Solms). One of the things I questioned them about was that the top screw was not sealed but they did not tell me that they had stopped doing this. My M4-P has a seal. Ian Stanley Kathmandu, Nepal