[Leica] Way OT: Shooting 8x10 LF and contact printing

[puff11 at comcast.net (Norm Aubin)]

Mike - 

In one sense you are way off base - I'm an ex-pat New Yorker who was
convinced that the N.Y./Pennsylvania border was the start of the wild west,
and in another sense you are spot on - in my heart of hearts Wyoming is the
center of the universe.  The Absaroka mountain range is to die for, and the
Yellowstone and Teton areas are one of God's most delightful gifts to
America.  "High, Wide and Handsome" is the appropriate state motto.

On a sad note, or perhaps as an engineering marvel, the traffic engineers
who laid the course for I-80 achieved a miracle; they found the only
possible route the a wonderfully beautiful state wherein they managed to
miss or avoid every possible scenic location there is.  This is akin to
solving the four-color map theorem. 

The last time I was in Laramie they had not paved all the streets yet, and I
bought my first pair of buffalo hide cowboy boots.  I fell in love with that
town then and there!  'Twas the summer of '69, and life was still in spring!

You know, this is the germination of an idea - we ought to start thinking in
terms of a photographic rendezvous, akin to the guys in the old hide clothes
and such, but for all types and styles of photographers who just want to
have a get-together in the middle of B.F.N. (that's an acronym for - "some
scenic locale") and celebrate the making of photographs, and sitting around
the camp fire telling lies, er ah  - incidents in our past - and perhaps
showing off a portfolio of stuff that we want to pass around and get coffee
stains on.

Food for though . . . maybe late spring or early fall of '07 is enough time
to let it start to become real . . . hmmmm  

Best of light,
Norm

   



> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:23:07 -0700
> From: "Mike Stoesz" <mstoesz@wyoming.com>
> Subject: : [Leica] Way OT: Shooting 8x10 LF and contact printing
> To: lug@leica-users.org
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> How about Wonderful Wyoming?  Easily accessible via I-80.
> 
> Kind Regards, 
> 
> Mike
> Laramie, Wy.
> 
> 
> Message: 18
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:09:59 -0800
> From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Way OT: Shooting 8x10 LF and contact printing
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
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> Great, Seattle, DC, and LA.... we could meet in .. where... 
> Colorado is about half way?
> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> Well, I'm just a hop skip and a jump away across the 
> continent in Washington, DC :-(
> 
> Scott

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