I just got a package from B&H, and the box appeared to have been crushed a bit on one side. The driver could have left it and gone, but he was actually concerned that it might have been expensive camera gear that got damaged. "I get packages from B&H and Adorama all the time at my own house," he says, and seemed relieved when I opened the box and it was only a small box of postcard paper, unharmed. So I asked him if he ever had customer service issues with Adorama, and he said only when he calls them on the phone. I suggested he give Freestyle a try.

So you never know who's out there.

The guy who comes to read my electricity and gas meters would like to get back into large format photography . . .

The landlady of the tiny pub at Beck Hole, a really small obscure English pub tucked deep in the North Yorks Moors studied with Chris Killip, and was an LF photographer at college.

Its a small world

Ian

There's a girl working in the kitchen shop where I buy tea who used to be a medical photographer. She moved in order to be nearer to a boyfriend and couldn't get photographic work here. We do have interesting conversations sometimes while she weighs another pound of Darjeeling FOP for me...


Peter

Weird that it's usually surprising when you run into someone who knows LF, huh?

I've been doing the marketing material for our symphony for some time. Always said hi to or chatted with the auditorium manager. He'd mentioned once he used to shoot LF then after I left some of my postcards in the display rack, he elaborated some..

...Turns out he was Julius Schulman's assistant for 15+ years! Wow...
Even talked about having him head up a workshop. Still talks with him now and then too.
'Tis a small world at times..