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Subject: [Leica] Kiev demonstrations
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:40:16 -0800
References: <52FFCE45.2080805@threshinc.com><CANzMCD_s7xz+pNW7Hc-8DgNh4wUD7TMcEFnGO6BGx8+3V-pxeg@mail.gmail.com> <CF253E6C.3E488%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

Chris I have some simple common sense logic for you.

WHO CARES???????????'

 cheers,
Dr. ted
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Kiev demonstrations


> It has now been more than twenty years since the fall of the Soviet Union,
> yet only a few of the states that emerged from the old Soviet empire are
> free and democratic today. The three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and
> Lithuania), and possibly Armenia and Georgia. The rest are still
> authoritarian states, and a few, such as Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, are
> now less free than they were under communism. Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov
> was the Communist boss of Uzbekistan in the last years of the Soviet
> system, and since independence he's brought back medieval punishments,
> like boiling people alive!
>
> -- 
> Chris Crawford
> Fine Art Photography
> Fort Wayne, Indiana
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> On 2/15/14 3:43 PM, "Jim Shulman" <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote:
>
>>For a minute I thought someone was demonstrating Kiev cameras. Unlike the
>>cameras, I hope this demonstration works.
>>On Feb 15, 2014 3:29 PM, "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As you may have heard, Ukraine is in crisis, with the main square of
>>>Kiev
>>> occupied by demonstrators.  A flickr friend of mine is there, and has
>>>been
>>> posting some pretty amazing pictures of the goings-on.
>>>
>>> This one is of a journalist who is covering the crisis with a
>>>conventional
>>> DSLR with telephoto, a Fuji X-Pro1, and what looks like a Speed Graphic!
>>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/estabrook/12540699383/>
>>>
>>> The entire series can be seen on his photostream:
>>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/estabrook/with/12541007393/>
>>>
>>> --Peter
>>>
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