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Subject: [Leica] Gulf Frittery Romance/Change of mind - unsubscribing
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 22:19:29 -0500
References: <CANYyKx83-9=rcUFsMvnEVnogUPNVRovXk8Nm_JcL4z5h3gj5Fg@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you, Alan.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:24 PM Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 1:11 AM Gerry Walden via LUG <lug at 
> >>leica-users.org
> >
> >>wrote:
>
> >> Nice image, but difficult to spot any Leica content at all.
>
> ................................................................................................
>
>
> >Ha!  Neither butterfly seemed to carrying a camera.
>
> >However, before I owned 2 Leica R cameras, 5 M film cameras, 2 digital
> >ones, and a IIIf, I lived on Beethoven Strasse in Wetzlar, and I could see
> >the Leitz factory from my bedroom.  My Wetzlar house is just around the
> >Corner from the new Leica facility.
>
> >So the Leica content is in the image from the experience that went into
> >making it.
>
> >I do have several Leica lenses with FE converters on them, btw.
>
> >SonC
> ============================================================
> ======================================================
> THANK YOU, Sonny, for this response.
>
> I loved and used my Leicas for 40 years; more of my 110 photo awards were
> taken with Leicas than any other camera, and I think that counts for
> something, even if my circumstances preclude me from using them now.  I
> have no darkroom and digital Leicas are out of my price league, especially
> since I don't get out to photograph as much as I used to (my wife has
> medical problems and I'm her caregiver). My pictures may not be technically
> equal to those made with Leica equipment, but I think creatively I still
> apply my experience with M's and LTM's to produce good work.
>
> --
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> amr3 at uwm.edu
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
>  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA


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