[rollei_list] Re: My Personal Future
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:36:48 -0800
So are you moving your practice to Richmond as well as your photography? Is
that far from where you live now?
On 3/23/06, Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> At 03:59 PM 3/23/06 -0800, Jim Brick wrote:
>
> >>I am in the process of moving to Richmond,
> >>VA, and my wife may have found a perfect house, one with a decent space
> for
> >>a dark room.
> >
> >Great news Marc! At least the last part of the sentence...
>
> I can rant for hours about this Four years back, we bought a marvelous
> house in the Old Southwest section of Roanoke, Virginia, a building of
> 3600
> square feet and including a full basement, a garage, and, in the attic, a
> servant's room, a school rom, and a trunk room. I had itended on using
> the
> servant's room as my darkroom but, other than having water run to it, the
> project just got waylaid in the course of other concerns. This house was
> bult in 1896 and still has the mounting blocks for horse-riders in the
> front yard; it was built by the grandfather of the next-door neighbor,
> who
> is a long-time acquiantance and who has lots of pictures of this house
> over
> the years.
>
> I am heartsick at leaving it. My personal office is in a former
> sun-porch.
> There are a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers who do their dance of lust
> outside my window, six feet away, every year. I doubt that I shall ever
> enjoy such a display again so close to my working space.
>
> But having a working dark room is a grand thought: my gear includes a
> Leitz V-35 and a Beseler with APO-Rodagon lenses. Hell, I've never used
> the 80mm lens in real life.
> Hving a real darkroom makes photography interesting. I have not taken one
> percent of the pictures I have shot over the preceding ten years since I
> closed my last darkroom down in 2002.
>
> And I still cannot figure out digital stuff. (Sure, guys: CARTHAGO
> DELENDA ESSE and all of that!)
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
> NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505
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