Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/26

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Subject: [Leica] My thanks
From: dcm at pobox.com (David C. Mason)
Date: Sat Nov 26 13:20:25 2005
References: <4dccee3d0511241440l1cead2afi39e462c29fc4cb7e@mail.gmail.com> <6c40b0d0039f1fcda356ceb614214d02@bellsouth.net>

Thanks Frank,

You are correct, the number of volunteers is falling right now. There
will be a good number during the holidays but once January comes
around the number is going to drop dramatically. Places like Biloxi
are going to need help for a very long time.

Thanks again for looking.


Dave



On 11/26/05, Frank F. Farmer <summicron@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> David,
>
> You do have some good images there.   THanks for sharing them.  Thanks
> too for your volunteer efforts.  Many folks are still in very dire
> straits down here even though it is no longer the lead story on the
> evening news.
>
> Frank Farmer
> Jackson, Miss.
>
> On Nov 24, 2005, at 4:40 PM, David C. Mason wrote:
>
> > Luggers,
> >
> > I have a great deal to be thankful for after spending over a week down
> > in Mississippi doing Hurricane Katrina relief work. I've uploaded a
> > handful of shots to the LUG gallery to share with you all. It was
> > extremely hard work with lots of work on temporary housing, work in
> > the donation distribution center, and "mucking" which is stripping a
> > house down to the studs after the flooding.
> >
> > I met an amazing group of people, both local folks and volunteers from
> > all over the country. I took an Olympus E300 just to make all the
> > large sensor nerds mad, and because its a great camera. I wish I had
> > taken more photos but I was working so hard and was so tired I found
> > that the camera stayed in the bag more than usual. At any rate here
> > are a few I selected from around 100 or so shots.
> >
> > The war-like scenes are from Biloxi which is simply devastated - the
> > people shots are from the D'Iberville P.O.D. (Point of Distribution)
> > on "food day" where everyone comes to receive donated food, and
> > finally there are a couple shots from some work I did for an elderly
> > couple, The Diaz's,  "mucking" their home which is stripping it down
> > to the studs after it flooded.
> >
> > Comments are welcome but I also hope everyone will take a moment to be
> > thankful they are sitting in their warm homes this Thanksgiving.
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album183
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from dcm at pobox.com (David C. Mason) ([Leica] My thanks)
Message from summicron at bellsouth.net (Frank F. Farmer) ([Leica] My thanks)