Re: San Francisco LHSA meeting photos

Peter:
You're making me wish I'd driven up the peninsula to go to the SF meeting! I shot a wedding in Mountain View that Saturday and it would have been a stretch. My quiet M7 and Noctilux came in handy for interior shots where I was only 10 feet away from the bride and groom in a very small, dim Buddhist Zendo. So I was thinking Leica at least. An SLR's 'bang-bang' mirror slap would have been very distracting.

Bill Rosauer looks pretty much the same as he did when we were in junior high and high school together. He convinced me to use my grandpa's M3 instead of my dad's old Contax with the non-return mirror - that got me started in photography. We both worked part-time at Stern's Camera in Winnetka, IL. He was a Leica fanatic then, and still is!


At 10:59 PM 11/20/2005, you wrote:
OK, gang, I've posted a gallery from the 2005 LHSA meeting in San Francisco. Many of the shots have no artistic merit whatsoever, they're just snaps of people I know. You're cordially invited to enjoy them anyway.

Here's the whole folder if you don't want to bother with the descriptions:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186

Mark Rabiner (in-focus) and Richard Wasserman at the LUG dinner Friday night. A very dim restaurant, 1/15 at f/1.5.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_01RabsDinner

Brian Reid, the founder and genial saloonkeeper of the LUG, speaking at lunch Saturday. (Nice to finally meet you in person, Brian!)
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_06BrianSpeaks

Tom Abrahamsson doing some major transaction during lunch. Stephen Gandy can hardly contain himself.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_08StephTomBiz

Slobodan Dimitrov and Tom A.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_09SlobodanTom

Tom A. telling one of his many stories. Slobodan and Stephen seem skeptical. I don't know the gentleman on the left.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_14SpotTomSkeptics

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Kim Komenich (right) of the San Francisco talks to an unidentified LHSA member after the banquet. Kim gave one of the best photographic talks I've ever heard.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_20KimK

While we had no repeat of 1906, there was a bit of excitement nearby on Sunday morning.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_23Fire

From my 8th-floor hotel window. I was attracted by the "vertigo" perspective, plus the wash and the pair of sneakers drying on the roof.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_26WashRoof

Terance Dixon came all the way from the U.K. to attend. Here his saying something pithy over his pasta penne.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_27Terance

This is not an out-of-focus picture of Mark Rabiner. It is an in-focus picture of LHSA Viewfinder editor Bill Rosauer, yours truly, and Dick Gladden.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_29LunchMirror

A group of us went walking Sunday afternoon. We met these friendly young women from one of the Carolinas, who had rented this little electric Go-Car.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_33ReadyToRoll
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_33GalsGoCar (previously posted)

This was supposed to be a street candid, but the woman on the left spotted me. The look she gave me matched the sign in the background (previously posted).
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/1_36HiMaintGals

M6TTL, 35/2 Summicron and 50/1.5 Nokton, Fuji Neopan 400. All but the last three pics are low-res Noritsu scans from my favorite local lab, which does a decent job on real B&W with Xtol 1:1.
No animals were harmed, nor any flash used in the making of these photographs.

Enjoy,
--Peter


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