Looking for Bay Area Photographers

[dean_cookson]

I'm moving from Boston to San Francisco this weekend and am looking

for a community of large format photographers in the bay area. I've

been working with Nick Johnson at the New England School of

Photography and found both good facilities (I don't have my own

darkroom yet) and a good community of people to share ideas and

critiques with. I've pretty much stuck to B&W landscape work in 4x5

for the past year or so but I have interest in trying some larger

formats...

 

Does something similar exist in San Francisco? I'm going to be living

up in Marin and working down in the SOMA section of the city so

something in either of those places would preferable.

 

Thanks for any suggestions,

Dean

[eugene_singer]

Dean, try Merg Ross, at mergross@aol.com. He may be able to recommend some people in the SF area that you can contact. We are E-mail pals, tell him that I recommended.

[ralph_barker]

Welcome to the Bay Area, Dean.

 

There is a group of LFers from around the Bay Area that recently formed. Contact Peter Rip (rip@leapfrogventures.com) for details on how to get on the mailing list. We have an excursion to Alcatraz planned for mid January, weather permitting, and anticipate monthly get-togethers.

[todd frederick]

Also welcome to the Bay Area.

 

I live south of San Jose and I am also looking for photographers who want to get out from time to time for LF photography, and to share ideas and techniques. I don't want to join any clubs, however. Just informal trips.

[ralph_barker]

Todd - the SF Bay Area group, for which Peter Rip is currently acting as a focal point, is quite informal and is presently planning outings on a flexible semi-monthly basis, with informal meetings on the alternating months. The next outing planned is for Alcatraz on Jan 4, weather permitting. You can contact Peter at the e-mail noted in the above response for details.

[prip]

Hi,

 

I started a Yahoo Groups Page for us to coordinate outings. It is:

 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LF_Photo_Bay_Area/

 

Please use this group to communicate, rather than go through me. There are about 12-14 people already active.

 

Thanks,

 

PR