[Leica] IMG: Sins of my youth

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

I've not taken many new photos lately. I'm having cataract surgery a 
week from Tuesday, and using the viewfinder has become difficult.

BUT...  I have been scanning old photographs.  I've got a 40th high 
school reunion coming up--Lexington High School in Massachusetts, class 
of 1971.  The folks running the reunion asked if anyone had 
photos--yeah, I've got photos.  So here is a sampling of stuff from the 
old days, mostly around 1971, with a few earlier or later.

Mostly Tri-X, Plus-X and Kodachrome 25 (I'd forgotten how *contrasty* 
that film was!).  Taken with an M2 and 50 DR Summicron or a 90 "fat" 
Tele-Elmarit.  If I'm not in the picture, I took it. If I'm in the 
picture, I probably set it up and handed the camera to a friend.  There 
are also a couple of photos from 1969 taken with an old Kodak box Brownie.

The whole gallery:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/>

A few specifics you might like:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/01LisaB-w.JPG.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/LarryBJeffRKinsmans71-w.JPG.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/25SFGDanSmall-w.JPG.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/23ProtestLexGreenReKentState-w.JPG.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/20PatriotsDay-w.JPG.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/19Apr19ManBaby-CurvSpotCrop2-w.JPG.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/10DebS-w.jpg.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/09SusieConducts-w.jpg.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/08JoeD-w.JPG.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/01OldManofMtns-w.JPG.html>

And some of me:

With Yul Brynner (a fellow Leica photographer) at a college convocation:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/02PeterYul-w.jpg.html>

With musicologist Hans Moldenhauer, who amassed one of the greatest 
private collections of music manuscripts in the world, and wrote the 
definitive biography of Anton Webern. I wrote about him for Spokane 
Magazine (Washington State), and we become friends.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/HansM-PeterK-82-w.JPG.html>

Hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/41PeterMtWhiteface-w.JPG.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/MyYouth/02PeterMtFlume-w.JPG.html>

Enjoy, and remember, you were once young and over-earnest, too!  :-)

--Peter