Re: [Leica] My Leica history

[fbrunell@bonzai.net (Francois Brunelle)]

Mervin,
where and at which date is the Park Square  Camera Leica Seminars taking place?
Would I need to register?  Is there a fee to attend?
Regards,

Francois Brunelle
Ashburn VA


.V0j wrote:

>
>
> I have read the histories of Lug members envolvement in photography. I thought
> that I would share mine.
> I have been taking photographs since I was 10 ( Univex and Agfa Box camera).
> Shot for my high school yearbook and then was photography editor  and
> photographer ( 3 1/4X41/4 Speed Graphic and Rolleiflex) for my college
> newspaper.  In  medical school I thought I was shooting my photography swan
> song when I did the senior year book in 1953.  However since then I have been
> photographing  whenever I can. I have done brochures for the psychiatric
> residency program, take pictures  at meetings for the American Psychoanalyst,
> in addition to lots of family and travel photos.
>  In 55 and 56  When I was in the Army medical corps, I was stationed in
> Frankfurt/M and was about 25 miles from Wetzlar...There, I was introduced to
> Leica, attended the Leica Schule in Wetzlar (and then brought the school to the
> 97th General Hospital to spread the word) . I sold my Exacta VX, and bought an
> M3.  At the time my secretary's husband was editor of the Army Times/Europe
> which had a very pedestrian photography column .  After I complained of the
> content for a few weeks she said..."O.K. Dr. Stewart, if you don't like the
> column, you write it and we will pay you for it"... So I was a  psychiatrist by
> day and a  photography columnist by night.. Not surprisingly all of my
> newspaper earnings went right up to Wetzlar where because of my journalism I
> received special  attention.
> Now I am 70  and practice psychiatry and psychoanalysis. I'm married, with
> three children all grown and 6 grandchildren.  We travel,  recently back from
> three weeks in China and the dining room table  is still covered with slides
> and prints waiting to be edited,organized and filed.  We had a wonderful trip
> to Australia and New Zealand a few years ago..And one of these years we will go
> back there again to more leisurely visit and photograph ( we were on a tour).
> Currently I use M6, R6.2 andR5.  I also have M3, M5, CL,SL2, R4.  I have
> numerous lenses but like the 100Apo, 35-70 F4, 80-200F4, and the 24 and 60mm
> for the R cameras and the 35 and 50 mm summicrons and the 90 tele-elmarit for
> the M6.
> I have attended the Park Square  Camera Leica Seminars for many years and am
> looking forward to this October's seminar which will have both Ted Grant and
> Walter Heun as  role models,instructors, leaders, critics and Scotch
> experts....It will be  a  great weekend.
> I  have been lurking on the Lug for quite a while.  I like the information,
> technical tips and the general good fellowship of the participants. When
> occasional sparks fly  on the list, I remind myself that I only work in the
> confines of my office!!
>
> (This note was originally sent privately to Alastair Firkin who asked me if I
> would share it with all the lug members.)
>
> Mervin Stewart
> Internet:mervinstewart@compuserve.com