Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/22

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Introducing myself to LUG
From: cooper at darktopography.com (Max Cooper)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:01:58 -0400
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Ted and all, thank you for the great welcome.  Lots of nice folks and 
photos here.

mc

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:42:16 -0700, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
> Hello Max,
> Welcome to the zoo! :-) You'll find us a wild and wooly bunch on
> topics covering the world and the people on it.  Occasionally we 
> touch
> on Leica subjects! :-)
>
> Even though we're a motley crew such as we are, we're a very
> wonderful group of people who are quite honestly a "world class
> family!" If an unfortunate event should happen to one of the crew or
> within their family, everyone feels it."
>
> And as in any family, we kind of snarl at each other on occasion.
> Which in 99.9% of the time are merely meaningless words as brother to
> brother or sisters to a bunch of brothers. :-) Although some of us
> have had the pleasure of meeting and greeting with a name on screen, 
> a
> warm hand shake and face to face warmth of meeting a friend. We trust
> maybe we'll have a similar opportunity with you at one of the
> gatherings that occur across Planet Earth occasionally.
>
> But be aware we have a crazy thing at a gathering, it's called "A
> Leica Stacking event." Have no fear it's always done with the 
> greatest
> of care and I don't believe we've ever had a complete "crash & burn"
> of Leica's. :-) But do practice holding your breathe as this event 
> can
> give you the shakes when there are 10 or more Leica M's stacked one 
> on
> the other in some precarious fashion. Well it kind of looks that way!
> :-)
>
> C&C's "comments & critiques" are asked for by some when posting a
> photo. Often these open great discussion and many of us learn
> something we never knew about a technique or other bit in 
> photography,
> despite some of us having a longtime playing in this wonderful world
> of photography. C&C's are never personal about each others 
> photos.....
> these are offered to assist a fellow photographer to become a better
> photographer. And we all want to become that!
>
> If you haven't yet met our wonderful saloon keeper, the great one at
> the helm of this list, Mr. Brian Reid of California. You will find
> he's quite a nice quiet sort of chap. If you screw-up in bad mouthing
> and or foul language you will find him to become un-gentle.
>
> As we've all offered in previous posts, glad to have you aboard!
>
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
> tedgrantphoto.com
> Victoria, CANADA.
>
>
>
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Max Cooper
maxcooperphoto.com
darktopography.com
(828) 808-7777


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