Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nathan, Nice initiative. 30 members is not bad at all. If they want to follow a workshop in English, I still have a few places open. Or you can fly my in to Spain:-) Cheers, Michiel Fokkema On 17 November 2010 08:35, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > We have recently started a photography club at the office, called Lightbox. > Out of a population of around 1000 (employees and contractors), about 80 > expressed an interest, and in the first week of operation about 30 have > actually paid membership dues, which is a very good result for a newly > started club. I am the treasurer. Last night we had our first event, a > "tertulia" on photography. Tertulia is a Spanish word that is difficult to > translate; two of Google's suggestions, "roundtable" or "bull session" are > not bad but not 100% accurate. In any event, we were 26 people in a small > bar which we had to ourselves, four of us made a presentation and we had a > good discussion about various aspects of photography (discussion is an > important element in a tertulia). Here is Philippa making a presentation > about traditional film photography, her passion: > > > http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#1094224625_izqGi-O-LB > > And here is part of the crowd: > > > http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#1094224592_MBrzT-O-LB > > The girl in the foreground is Romanian, the two people in the background > are Greek and Spanish/Belgian, respectively. Typical for our office. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > YNWA > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- -------------------------------------------- Fokkema Fotografie www.michielfokkema.com michiel.fokkema at gmail.com GSM:+31 (0) 615569576