Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair Firkin wrote: > G'day all, > > Helen and I have been home long enough for most people to catch up, but > we are almost there. So this post has a number of roles: > > 1. It is with great sadness that I have to report that the FOM2 project > has lost another of its finest photographers. On the 3rd of May, Dieter > W. Wehde died after a long fight with lung cancer. Dieter was one > lugger/fom2 friend on whom I had learnt to rely, and when I heard about > his illness, I was determined to go to Hamburg to meet him. Of course I > arrived in Hamburg 2 weeks too late. I heard about his death as we left > Prague, and it put a gloom on some of our trip. > > 2. I have to admit to NOT being a great salesman or success in finding > outlets for FOM2. We visited the Leica Gallery in Prague and saw a > wonderful Salgado exhibition (workers). The gallery is housed on a > train, and it chugged off 6 hours later. Ringing the gallery owner was > inhibited by "language". So it was off to Poland and then Germany. We > rang Leica, who could not find a time for the tour. With this, a visit > to Solms seemed a bit pointless, so we decided the projects fate would > have to rest on other formats. It is clear the galleries are small in > general. > > 3. We were welcomed to Poland and guided onto buses trains etc by > Stanislaw. I cannot thank him enough for his help. We had a wonderful > time in Krakow: a city on the must visit list. LUG contacts do make > travel fun ;-) > > I have now processed the 20 rolls of Rollei R3 and 5 rolls of other > "assorted" b/w films, and will begin printing this weekend. > > So little time so much to do: but its good to be back. > > Hope you have all been busy on FOM2 ;-) > > Cheers > > > > Alastair > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Al, Try The Photographer's Gallery in London. Peter