[Leica] IMG: Sins of my youth

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Thanks for sharing, Peter.  Nice group!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com>
To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 5:19 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Sins of my youth


> 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
>
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