Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > > > The first job i got in Portland when i came here from college in 1975 was for a > guy - a master photographer Sjef Wildshut who was shooting all the Jantzen > Catalogs http://www.jantzen.com/jznecom/ with a Leicaflex when he wasn't using > the Hasselblad. This was the first time i ever saw a fashion photographer work. > This account kept him pretty busy year round. > Later on when i saw other fashion photographers using Nikons it felt to me like > THEY were the ones using the weird stuff. Yes, but this was an exception...I knew of some, too...Gary Bunton in Dallas used only Leica(flex) gear...but that's still ONE out of hundreds, just in the metroplex! > > Next year the LHSA meeting will be here, Walt, in Portland Oregon. > > Some perhaps kinder gentler folks running the show now. Younger I guess. > People you've not had the time to offend yet! Fresh blood!!! God, that sounds tasty!!! > . > I am the new Program Director! I'd love to be there, but damn that's a long way from Texas...I'd be away from the trailer park a while, and I'd hate for the bubbas next door to steal my welfare check again...as it is I can barely afford beer, cigarettes, AND a 35 'lux...and now that it's getting cooler, my kid wants some damn shoes to go to school in.....it never ends!!! > > COME ON DOWN and make some new enemies! Sounds promising....well, do ya'll have a blues band and cheap women there yet?...just thinking of things lacking at LHSA events (I'll bring viagra for the membership--I get quantity discounts) > > Walt i think you'd LOVE to hang out with us and i KNOW we'd love to have you. > Bring your Pentax. I'd love to see ya'll, too...but I've gotten off the K1000 kick now that I bought a Petri at the VFW garage sale....now THERE'S an underrated system!!! > CU later, Walt > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon > USA > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html