[Leica] My First Leica PAW! (Ron de-lurks)

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Very nice stuff, Ron - I'm glad you de-lurked. In fact...Each week the
students in my MIT Documentary photo class are shown a photo, and told
to write the first 250 words of a short story based on a photo they're
shown - and this week I'm going to show them your shot of the little boy
looking up the stairs. Terrific shot!

B. D.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Ron Price
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:22 AM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] My First Leica PAW! (Ron de-lurks)


Hello, all!

My name's Ron. I'm an amateur (photographer, that is) in Columbus, OH,
USA.

I've been lurking here for a couple of years now... I think I had one
post when I first started looking at Leicas (and I bought my 35mm
Summicron from Phong here), but I've been silent since. I've been trying
to re-dedicate myself to getting out and shooting, so I've started a PAW
project. This week is the first time since I started where I was
shooting with my M6.

To make my LUG debut all the more nerve-wracking, I had very little
(less than usual, even) to choose from this week. I did, however, learn
two
things:

1) I am not yet capable of estimating development times for films shot
at ASAs for which I do not have a chart; and

2) Even if you underdevelop your film by quite a bit, you can still
salvage an image if you point your camera directly at the sun:

http://curiousrobot.com/PAWPics/week16.html

Not much, I know, but the point of this is to make myself do it, post
it, and take my lumps, right?

The PAW index (three weeks old!) can be found here:

http://curiousrobot.com/paw2004.html

And some other stuff of mine is here:

http://curiousrobot.com/gallery1.html

Thanks to all who look, comment, or criticize! I hope to hear from some
of you...


Seeya,

Ron

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