[LargeFormat] Introductions

[Les Newcomer]

I have a brand new....er, never been opened..yeah that's better, NEVER 
BEEN OPENED! pack...er box of 12 sheets of4x5 Plus-X waiting for you. they 
even have black tabs with numbers on them! Show your ADDress (not dress, 
address) and I'll put it in the post box tomorrow. With some luck in will 
get there. With better luck... well

Les Newcomer



On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 04:47 PM, rstein wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
>      I have deliberately hung back in the rush to embrace this topic. This
> is not modesty - it took time to note and file all the responses from list
> members and correlate them with other sources of information. Even in this
> computer age it still takes time to get bank account details and PIN
> numbers, even if you have the right contacts.
>
>     This at least has the effect of letting one contemplate the nature of
> the human mind. Did you know that two of the list members, Brock and 
> Philip,
> have the same identical PIN number for their  various savings accounts? 
> And
> that you can access these from a public telephone booth if you preface the
> actual number with a 1 800 number routed through Spain? How did they think
> this one up? Do they regularly remove money from each other's accounts and
> then claim bank error? Do they have bullfight posters in their respective
> darkrooms?
>
>     Likewise, what has become of the Orphan's Relief Fund that Clive
> administered? I can find no trace of it - I have been searching all the
> cupboards at his place and tapped the skirting board and nothing. Big 
> mice,
> but no money.
>
>     Still, I suppose I really should introduce myself to you - you have 
> been
> reading my posts for several years - those of you that have not put a 
> strong
> filter on them - and it is only fair to let you see the full picture.
>
>     One of the advantages of being a dental surgeon is you can approach 
> the
> rest of your life with the knowledge that people do not hate you as much
> there as at work. They may recoil a little when you try to shake their 
> hand
> with a rubber glove on, but this is momentary. The thing to do is remember
> that there is work and there is home - you must stop yourself from peering
> into mouths with little mirrors when introduced at cocktail parties - it 
> can
> unsettle people.
>
>     One of the advantages of being a large format photographer who
> photographs belly dancers and glamour girl types in his own studio with a 
> 4
> x 5 Linhof or Ratty Old Nagaoka is the studio is air conditioned and has
> coffee making facilities. Lighting is largely at the command of the
> photographer, or at least at the command of the bossy friend that came 
> along
> with the dancer. Backdrops can be arranged and effects can be acheived.
> Artistic freedom - at least the freedom to do as I am damn well told - is
> paramount. Tantrums are encouraged. Mine.
>
>     Of course the disadvantage to being the aforesaid studio glamour type 
> is
> not all subjects are really as glamourous as they think they are. You can 
> do
> a great deal with diffusion, but when it comes down to shooting through
> gauze, and then through smeared vaseline, and finally through
> linoleum....well....I do try to encourage the girls. I am positive. I
> exuberate. I also sweat a lot.
>
>     Please note that I am turning 55 on the 1st of April and I expect a
> present from each and every one of you. Sheet film is always acceptable.
>
>      Uncle Dick
>
>
>
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