What is your profession?

i am a 42yo chem eng. who takes pics for the left/right brain balance.

 

i like the travel but hate the admin. side.

 

someone in a more creative profession willing to offer me a job?

 

i've done just about everything to pay for college.

29 yr old web developer, orig trained as a chemist, but im glad I went into computing otherwise I wouldnt be able to afford my Leica! ;}

Sales Manager for international courier also own a small telecom company; photography has been my hobby for ever had all sorts of Leicas but new to the M range.Trying out a digital camera at present for my wife must admit it is a strange experience wish i could hear the shutter click(never sure if i have taken the photo).

44 yrs old. Currently a voluntary international bank unemployee, so to speak. Considering a change to a different line of work, but I am beginning to discover I do not have the requisite number of grey hairs to automatically project an air of authority.

And not a single woman, by the look of it.

Age 52. Biologist in pharmaceuticals company. M6TTL .58 + 28mm/2.0. Kawasaki ZX-6R. One of my recent hobbies has been taking pictures relating to Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention:

 

http://www.cableaz.com/users/lantz/petermackay.html

 

No grey hair yet!

i turned 39 in march...good gawd that looks strange in print..i've

been a carpenter/wooden boat builder since i was a

teenager..who am i kidding?..i'm still a teenager..i'm supposed

to start school in the fall but i have been taking my tuition

payments and ducking into the camera store to pay for a leica

M6. it'll take another couple of months to pay it off with one good

lens. the next thing will be to sell my '72 vw van and buy an

around the world-ticket and finish writing that book i started so

many moons ago.it's a story about a boy and his camera...wish

me well...

 

many thanks to all the people here who have given me so much

artistic encouragement..i know that i am an artist and i think i

need to take a little time to discover what that means.

 

thanks also to doug thatcher, whose response has helped

temper my resolve.

 

~poetprince

33, An even though the sheepskins on the wall call me an electrical engineer and a physicist, I hardly remember how to spell either anymore.

 

I, along with two partners, am trying to get a consulting firm off the ground after getting tired of working for other people. All of us are "victims" of the great telecom crash of the past year and so are trying to break into new markets.

 

Anyone need a good Operations / Organizational Development Consultant? ;-)

b~

Rob Appleby said: "but not a single woman." My lovin' 76 year old spouse of 32 years is a much better photographer than I am. She just doesn't use the computer. She's in complete charge of our M6. She's a special librarian who spent her entire career in the care and feeding of physicists, mathemeticians, chemists and assorted engineers. When she retired, she was the director of information services at NIST. Now, she's in complete charge of me and the M6 < grin >.

58, sociologist and grey, working as a teacher at highschool in Germany, photographing since more than 35 years with Leica - at the moment with R8, R6.2 and M6.

As I mentioned above -- <i>Back to the basics, so to say.</i> -- that did not refer to me being me, but to this whole question's dating back to the good old Greenspun days. I haven't changed. 55, gray hair, Ph.D. in chemistry, research at the university medical school, in my spare time more and more devotion to being this university's scuba diving instructor. That's why I started off with a Nikonos II and its 15 mm. But I still love my Leica M stuff.

Over 50 but not good enough to play on the senior tour. I don't think my kids caused my grey hair. Daughter graduates from university this month. Mainframe systems consultant for the last 22 years and before that I taught high school. Bought my first Leica, a 2-stroke M3 from a store in SF in '69. Moved up to single stroke M3 and M2 in early 70s. Had one of the opening pictures in the 50 Years of Leica book and was one of the only amateurs to have a picture in Family of Children.

49 year-old university administrator (Safety adviser) - balding. Two M6-TTLs and an R6.2. Also have Canon (EOS-1V and EOS-1D), Mamiya RZ, X-Pan, and just bought a second-hand Nikonos. Oh - and I've got a very understanding wife !!!

 

Ian

Bald punk.<p>

 

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<I>thanks also to doug thatcher, whose response has helped temper my resolve. </I> -- Daniel Flynn<P>

 

Glad to be of service! Call (er, email) with any questions.

I'm a 19 year old swimsuit model with fake hooters.

...and my apologies to Mr. Thacker for misspelling your name..a

funny thing happened today on my way to the film lab....i noticed

that some reprints were not the same vibrancy as the originals

and i was curious as to how i could fix this problem and prevent

it from happening again...so after taking full command of the

service desk and spreading out all of my so-called reprints and

pleading with the wonderful girl at the counter to please 'correct'

my images, she smirks at me!

at first i took this to be a look that stated, "you have no idea what

you're talking about, dan"...and in a way i was partially right.

she spoke to m e in a genuine tone (she really is quite nice,

despite her haunting smirk) and informed me that my problem

was not in the reprints at all and that no amount of printing

adjustments would ever bring me the satisfaction i

desired...feeling a little dazed and confused by such an insightful

statement and feeling a little sarcastic, i asked, "and exactly what

will fix my problem?"

she never lost her smirk and spoke quite clearly and in a very

matter-of-fact way and responded with, "YOU will fix it easily once

you accept the fact that you are a Leica Head"

she then placed one roll of slide film on the counter and said,

"and this one is on the house"

it was the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a long

time...speaking as an artist, i would have to admit that i felt

something that is elusive to most artists and something we all

search for and work towards. i felt RECOGNIZED.

i felt understood

i felt goofy

i felt like magic was occuring all around me

 

ya..i felt like dancing, but don't tell my girlfriend that or i'm

doomed!

and so i marched over to the camera sales department and

asked to look at 'my' Leica..i pulled it from the clutches of the box

and just held it for a moment, admiring the way it felt in my

hands..familiar, like an old friend..i put my eye to the viewfinder

and played with the focus..in focus..out of

focus...mmmmmm...how smooooothe...i've made some

decisions in my life..some good and some not so good...but

when i left that store today i knew that deep in my heart i had

made the right one.

 

~poetprince

I am 60, not old, not grey and yes I am a physician. I shoot 4x5 with Deardorff and Wista, 35mm with Leica M. Regards.

I'm a 46 Y.O. commercial ad. photographer living in Chicago with

my wife and pack of kids. I work in all formats from 8x10 to

35mm, supply a couple of stock agencies, and do a lot of highly

specialized lighting. My career began with daily news and wire

service work in the 70's and I've never stopped doing street work

for my own satisfaction. I've always been a 35mm Nikon guy, and

didn't really consider getting into Leica until I stumbled across

this forum in search of a Leitz V35. I've enjoyed the various

communication and corresondence with some of the members,

all nice folks, even one extremely arrogant one that does

weddings. I'll be picking up some Leica gear in the near future

just to see what all the shoutin's about, although I know it's a

great tool. You can't ALL be wrong!

Since you asked, I'm a photojournalist and corporate shooter who shoots for such small publications as the NY Times, TIME, etc.

Oh hell, just to to http://members.fcc.net/sal.dimarcojr and see for yourselves

But Sal, how modest of you not to mention your most impressive qualification of all in this thread - your head of fine grey hair!

 

:-)

Well, it seems that I have some partial twins out there. Yes, gray/white hair-at least what's left; yes, Ph.D. and former college prof-I've been a full-time consultant for the past ten years; and yes, middle-age -66. My first camera?? I fondly remember a Retina Ic and a Ciroflex. I took my first photo course at 12, traveling by -bus and subway from Queens (a NYC outer-boro) to Manhattan and have been trying my hand at it since! I was an Army photog; worked for a while as a wedding and insurance photographer to support my habit while I tried to become a 'real' Lifer. Worked as an assistant for Bradley Smith and then Arnold Newman. Freelanced and then realized (as a newly married and responsible young man) that I needed a 'regular' income. My Retina became a Nikon and then my dream for my own Leica came to be a reality. I now use my new M7 and lenses for travel and family images and an occasional attempt at 'The Decisive Image'-but I enjoy every frame! Best wishes to all.

 

Al Simon