[Leica] Heading into 2008

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin@afirkin.com)]

Back from Christmas: we had a wonderful family day, as I hope all of you 
did. It is now time to wish all my friends on the LUG all the best for the 
coming new year. Lets hope its a good one. Here in Australia (Victoria) it 
is "hot as Hades" blowing up to 42c today and should be around the mid 30's 
as we see in the new year. That could produce a lot of beer drinking and 
make my day on duty Jan 1 all the more busy, but we live in hope.

I was lazing around in the heat over the weekend, catching up with my 
reading and feeling a bit nostalgic. So I pulled out the "family-albums" and 
reviewed family images I've taken dating back to the early 70's. I have to 
say, that I have yet to become convinced that the "snap-shots" produced by 
the digital "techniques" are anything like as good as the snaps taken with 
film a few years earlier, and b/w still rings bells, so it is with this in 
mind, that new year resolution number one is to clear out the junk from the 
darkroom (ie all that colour gear) and get back into printing. Look out 
print exchange ;-)

NYR number 2 is to lose this excess christmas mass ;-) and number 3 ------ 
well, I'll wait till close to midnight.

So Cheers, here's luck and love luck and laughter to you and yours


Alastair and Helen