[Leica] Darkrooms and Hurricane Housings

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

You are right about Labor Day. Since I've been down here, nearly every first
major hurricane has made landfall right around Labor Day. In fact, we don't
schedule any important meetings or workshops a week before or after Labor
Day as we know they'll be canceled due to the hurricane anyway.

As for your darkroom, you absolutely must turn the guest bathroom into the
darkroom. It would be a darkroom that serves as a temporary guest bathroom.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




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James Small
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 8:47 PM
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Subject: [Leica] Darkrooms and Hurricane Housings 


Folks

My wife and I spent a few minutes arguing last Friday over where the
darkroom was to be in the new house, built in 1985 and a house so modern
that  I have no approach.  I currently reside in a house built in 1896,
which I regard as "late construction" and my office building was built in
1909, and I view this as "post-modern", so a vehicle from 1985 is outside my
ken.  My wife was unhappy with my suggestion that I could use the Guest
Bathroom as a temporary darkroom on the logical grounds that we have few
guests, our Jem Kime have been our latest, and that some two years back. (As
I have told Jeffery, when the NEXT hurrricane hits, he will always have a
place at Schloss Klein, though it might well be that he has to lever a Leica
V-35 out of the way when biology intrudes in the still of the night. For
that matter, as I do most of my processing after midnight, he might have to
lever me aside, as well, but, so long as the chemical demands are met, I am
a rather easy dude to deal with in a darkroom-of-dual-purpose.)

I'll see you around Labor Day, Jeffrey.  The room will be set up and ready
for you.  <he grins -- but the room will be there should, horrors!, you need
it.  And if some other List Members are equally stranded, well, I have a lot
of sleeping bags and air matresses and the like.  We will be in Chester,
Virginia, just south of Richmond, Virginia -- and to you Leica die-hards,
the home of  Zeiss Sports Optics North America, but we shan't work much on
that.>

Any future hurricane victims can apply.  We will have ample space, if you
can sleep around an odd enlarger or the like.  

Everyone has a bed for a day or two at Schloss Klein.  Within limits, and so
long as you guys can share an evening over a pot of tea talking Leica and
Leica photography.

Marc

msmall@aya.yale.edu 
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!




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