[LRflex] Re: Why?

I wanted some way to 'capture' the scenes I was seeing every day on my Dad's 
farm [where I still live]
I couldn't paint or draw, but I had friends who could. One day while talking 
to one of'em, he suggested I try my hand at photography.
I tried it, liked it, and still do.



>From: Philippe Amard <phamard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [LRflex] Why?
>Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:49:49 +0100
>
>Hi Flexers,
>
>I was just curious to know why we picked up our, call it hobby, job or
>passion.
>
>If I may start this thread with my own experience, my interest started
>during art classes at school, not that we took photos or spoke about
>photography, but the teacher would ask us to "frame" an interesting part
>of  a view we liked - whatever it was  - by forming a rectangle finder
>using our fingers. This is how I got interested in "framing".
>
>Consequently, and being very clumsy at painting, I worked during the
>holidays to buy myself a second hand BW lab and a much used Foca (French
>Leica clone)
>After many a night spent in the lab, I progressively got interested in
>colour - slides came up "cheap" for I had had the opportunity to buy an
>impressive out of date but still usable stock of K25 from a supermarket
>(some of you will remember the "cloth" envelope with its strings :-D ).
>
>Then life went on, with its ups and downs. But with a(ny) camera still
>either round my neck, or within arm's reach - I must confess a couple of
>years' video fit when the kids got born though.
>
>I missed the lab - Iflfomar/brome - and K25 until I recently went
>digital and the magic of PS, LR, Spix and more. And as someone on the
>list wrote once, I now feel like a kid again wanting to experiment and
>shoot everything. Well, I guess the virus is still there then.
>
>What about you?
>
>Yours
>Phileicangemix
>
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