Re: [Leica] Time to delurk…

[imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)]

Welcome to the LUG light J?rn.
Great to hear (read) a new voice
and
to see your frozen moments.
Some fine travel photographs.
I'm struck by the combination of western and traditional clothing
in the Somalia images.

Fond regards,
George

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On Dec 26, 2008, at 5:12 PM, J?rn Smedsgaard wrote:

> Hello Luggers,
>
> After years of lurking around LUG, the very persistent appeals to  
> participate in the LUG yearbook have given me the last push to  
> submit two pictures to the LUG yearbook, but also show a few more  
> in the LUG gallery (including alternatives for the ones in the  
> yearbook): http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/josmeds/ (don?t be to  
> hard on me).
>
> I have always felt that showing pictures was one of the most  
> important parts of LUG. I have never managed to get scans from my  
> tri-x or slides in a quality that I wanted to show the world (LUG  
> that is) and nor felt that I had the knowledge to share therefore I  
> haven?t felt that I could contribute to LUG thus I have just lurked  
> around. As of mid-2007 I have been shooting digital with a M8 and  
> am slowly learning the art of color management (and gray-scale) and  
> printing mostly using Lightroom.  And digital pictures are just so  
> obvious to show and share on the net, e.g. in the brilliant LUG  
> gallery (thank you Brian!) therefore I feel it is time for me to  
> delurk and participate.
>
> Anyway, I have been hanging around LUG more or less since the  
> mid-90ties after I got an M6 in 1993 (which I still have). I have  
> always been impressed by the collective knowledge and wisdom on LUG  
> and have over the years I learned a lot about things I never knew  
> that I needed to know e.g.: tilly hat, cars, vintage watches,  
> stereos, which scotch to drink with Leicas, world economy, soaking  
> camera in mud and rivers, using underwear to clean lenses, filters  
> but also more directly useful stuff about photography, Leicas and  
> darkroom techniques. And I have followed the heated debates, the  
> humorous discussions, and watched people come and go giving the LUG  
> crowd the sense of good close friends.
>
> And about me ? first of all I don?t do photography for a living (I  
> do mass spectrometry and is head of Food Chemistry at the National  
> Food Institute, which is a part of the Technical University of  
> Denmark). For me photography is a hobby, a joy and good fun but  
> also a way to stop time and to reflect a bit over a world that is  
> moving at an ever-increasing speed. I am about halfway through life  
> (49) and two-third through my working life - probably at the peak  
> of my career. Work is consuming a significant part of my time  
> leaving far too little time for photography and time is often more  
> a limitation than money. But 2008 gave time for two trips: one to  
> Cambodia and Vietnam and one to southern Ethiopia, places that are  
> very photogenic although photography in Ethiopia is a bit  
> difficult. I have included a few images from these trips in the LUG  
> gallery. My two Leica M8s are really good fun to use and they have  
> performed flawlessly so far both in the heath and humidity of the  
> tropics, in the dust and bumps on the extremely bad roads in  
> Ethiopia to the cold wet winters in Denmark. I have to admit that  
> most problems encountered can be assigned to a ?fault 40? ? user  
> error.
>
> I live in Denmark, about 20 km north of Copenhagen, in a country  
> where sunrise currently is at around 8:40 and sunset around 15:40  
> with a very low sun (not today as it is foggy) leaving about 7  
> hours of dusk for photography.
>
> Finally, I only read the LUG-digest mails as time don't allow to  
> read LUG more 2-3 times a week and I just find it easier to scan  
> the digest.
>
> Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year to everyone
>
> Cheers J?rn
>
> J?rn Smedsgaard, Birker?d, Denmark
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