Re: [Leica] SLUG fest 2000

[Ian Stanley <stanley@loxinfo.co.th>]

Hello Alastair,

         Glad to hear you had a great time in Singapore - it's been a few 
years since I was down that way but the memory of the good times with Dan 
and the Contax bunch is still fresh in my memory.  I know what you mean 
about Asia and this part of the world - it really does grow on you.  I have 
been fortunate having travelled a great deal over the years but now I find 
that the trips back to Canada for the holidays are becoming a little 
tedious and I would just rather stay on in Thailand - monsoon season and all.

         I hope to make it to one of the future SLUG meetings.

Ian Stanley

Bangkok

At 11:07 AM 18/03/2000 +1100, you wrote:

big snip!!!
>Dear Friends,
>
>
>At lunch we met Jim Nelon who also has a Leica tale to tell. We had missed
>Jim on our visit to Hong Kong but were delighted to meet him here. He was
>not able to come on the Photo shoot, but will  have his Images (taken on a
>10 month break from work) in Leica Fotographie 5/00 and out in book form
>soon. Images of isolated pockets of humanity in a rapidly changing world,
>shot with the R8, by one of our "own". I can't wait to see them. Like
>Adrian Bradshaw, Jim hates to leave Asia -- so much is happening that even
>a week or two away will see changes that can never be re-explored, so they
>want to see and be involved in as much as time can allow them.
>
>Europe, Australia, and North America seem stagnant, slow and unchanging to
>the 'Leica' eye that lives in the dynamo of Asia.
>
>Alastair Firkin
>
>http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html