Let's Do a Portrait Party in Southern California!

[Tri Tran]

Hugo,
I have plan in the afternoon but will be there in the morning until noon.Hope to see everyone there.

[matthew blais]

Thanks Hugo for being a wonderful host. Enjoyed seeing Tri again and meeting Mel. Of course my friends Domenico and Jim are both always fun to visit with.

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Great friends, great HUGE lenses to see. Especially the HUGE canons that Tri had in his car. Each had it's own milk crate! I mean HUGE. Thanks for setting up the 11x14 so we could look through some of these beasts. Great discussions about our work and beautiful prints to look at. The food was fantastic, Thanks Hugo, and the light in the afternoon was like magic! Can't wait to see some negatives from my 11x14. All in all a great time.

Jim

[Hugo Zhang]

Thanks everybody for showing up. I still have some hang over from too much drinks. Nothing beats bunchs of LF friends looking at each other prints and talking about art and life and then shooting in the beautifully afternnon light. Seems everybody had a great time and I believe I had a few good negatives too.

Hugo

[Tri Tran]

Thanks Hugo and Vicky for inviting us. We sure have a wonderful day with all the foods , drinks and so many lenses , prints , camera to play with. Thanks for showing us the new 4x5 Chameica . A great reinvented a wonderful Range Finder Leica 4x5 PS . A truly a classic !
Glad to see Jim, Mat and Domenico again and so much enjoyed the Carbon prints from Jim . I feel very fortunate to see and hold them in person for a beautiful Carbon Prints Collection . Awsome work Jim. Thanks again for showing them and looking forward to learn the process when I finalized my schedule.
Again , thanks to Hugo to put all this for the third time LF Forum members get together and hoping the 4th meeting will happen soon. Best to all.

[fuegocito]

How about some pix for those of us who are not fortunate enough to be out west with that many photographers there, someone must have had a digicam of sort, just my guess.

Sorry to have missed the Party Hugo, I decided to stick with my original plan and rode up the Mexico east coast instead, Karma should have it that I rode right into another hurricane in the North-eastern Mexico, DOA!!!!

Rob

[Richard K.]

How about some pix for those of us who are not fortunate enough to be out west

Here, here, post here!!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Well, I'm out when it comes to a digital camera. I only brought the 11x14 and I don't own a digital camera. I don't think anyone was shooting any digital but then again we were all liquored up so I don't remember!! The people who did not make it missed a great time. Thanks again Hugo!

Jim

[Mel]

Thanks again for inviting me, Hugo.
It was nice to meet everyone and
great to see so many LF photographers
and camera gathered in one place.
All that fun should be illegal. Yes,
the light was special, too. Can't
wait to see my pics, too. Wish I
had a scanner to post some 35mm.

[Jim Fitzgerald]

My negatives are amazing. The light at the end of the day was spectacular. Wait till you see the x-ray film and how it handled the range of tones and i can't wait to print some carbons. WOW!

Jim