Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/19

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Welcome...
From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:06:59 -0700

Let me add my voice to the welcome-back chorus, Oddmund.  This place needs a few more strong opinions :-)

There's an international globalization meeting going on this weekend in Quebec City, 5 hours drive away.  Unfortunately I'm not going.  I was thinking to reprise my left-bank days from 1968, but the work that gives me the money to buy Leicas doesn't allow me the time to use them.  I have a friend who's going, and taking her 16-year-old daughter.  They're both planning on photographing the experience from the inside - and I'm jealous as hell.  There's going to be marches, and impassioned speeches, and tear gas, and pepper spray, and police with short necks and shorter tempers (Canada's version of the CRS).  Even if they don't have fun they'll have fun.  Her daughter will have a chance to think about some large and important issues, and maybe when she's older and remembers that she once had ideals she'll pull out her pictures of Quebec City and rededicate herself.  

Anyway, welcome back.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oddmund [mailto:garvik@ifrance.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:17 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Welcome...
 
[snip] 
> I always considered the Leica as a weapon in the struggle for a better
> world, nothing more, nothing less. It is probably becoming 
> less a weapon
> now as the image pollution drowns or hides the pearls. But you don't
> change because you are used to this camera and this way of 
> working. You
> make images of human dignity where it is supposed not to be, 
> you write,
> you talk, you walk in the streets with thousands and 
> thousands from time
> to time, even if you have lived half a century already and 
> are supposed to
> shut up and keep quiet. Or perhaps it is because of that. You have a
> perspective that hasn't faded too much. You are a rebel, a 
> resistant. You
> haven't changed.
> 
> Voilą, I am back...
> 
> Oddmund
>