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rsdean · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 52 Location: NE Maryland

I've been reading rec.photo.equipment.large-format since I got started with the Graphic. There have been reports of LF photographer gatherings in the midwest which sounded like fun. Is anybody interested in doing such a thing out here in the greater Washington DC area? It'd be nice to share the stares when I take the camera out.

Rob Dean

alecj · Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 853 Location: Alabama

Share the stares? Just what have you been wearing that causes stares?

Dan Fromm · Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 2144 Location: New Jersey

rsdean · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 52 Location: NE Maryland

No. Apparently I look like a dangerous lunatic or something

, since the usual reaction I get is people standing off at a distance pointing and talking to each other rather than asking me what I'm doing. (Or maybe I just look so preoccupied that they don't want to bother me...)

I still think it would be fun to go out in a group.

Rob Dean

Graflite · Joined: 08 Nov 2001 Posts: 103 Location: Southeast US

I think the idea of a "gathering" is a fine idea, but one wonders (or at least I do) what a gathering of Graflex users would be called?

I know that a gathering of geese is a gaggle, a gathering of crows is a murder and a gathering of lions is a pride, but just what would a gathering of Graflex users be called?

Still, it would be rather a lot of fun to see a dozen or so persons strolling down the street carrying all manners of Graflex cameras, one wonders if a passerby would think to call the police.

Any thoughts or ideas for names of a gathering of Graflex users?

graflite

Baker · Joined: 08 Apr 2002 Posts: 85 Location: Texas

I get stared at when I take my Graphic out in public, too. Of course, I'm usually dressed like this when I do...

Les · Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 Location: Detroit, MI

Any thoughts or ideas for names of a gathering of Graflex users?

the printable term my digi-photographers call me is luddite

Dan Fromm · Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 2144 Location: New Jersey

45PSS · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 6:30 am Post subject:

GRAFPAK

And the outing can be called a SHOOT-A-THON.

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clnfrd · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 1:16 pm Post subject:

Should the Shoot-a-thon be rated GV...for Graphic Violence?

45PSS · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 3:28 am Post subject:

GNV Graphic Non Violent...(and enviormently friendly also).

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Les · Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 Location: Detroit, MI

clnfrd · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 12:38 pm Post subject:

Please identify said idiots.

Les · Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 Location: Detroit, MI

Jimmy Olsen and Casey (never knew his last name, only knew he was a crime photographer)

clnfrd · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 2:26 pm Post subject:

Aw. shucks! I thought maybe it was Les and Leigh Klotz.