roll call

[Jack_5762]

the last roll call I can find on this thread was seven months ago. It's time to check in. Who the hell are you people and where in this wide world are you?

[Jack_5762]

I forgot to mention, "Jack present and accounted for. Reporting in from the Houston Humidity Festival"

[Colin Graham]

At last a question I can answer. I live in Joyce, WA on the Olympic peninsula. Greetings Jack.

[Alec Jones]

Hey Jack, what makes me think you've got too much time on your hands? Don't you think you are overdoing the message bit? Why don't you get out and TAKE some pictures rather than sit at your computer talking everything but them? This IS the Large Format forum, not a daily chit-chat. Just my 2 ¢.

[John_4185]

jj hailing from the Tropics of Winona, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River.

[gene LaFord]

gene in Springfield, MA... Wooooo-Hooooo what a wonderful town!!

[Ole Tjugen]

I' m still where I was seven months ago.

Bergen, Norway.

[Tedd]

Stockholm, Sweden in da forum!
But originally from Denver, PA.

[gfen]

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Where its beautifully sunny, gorgeously temperate, a week of fluffy white clouds and still full green trees, perfect weather to go take a hike in and maybe take a photo.

Me? I've been working all week. Haven't the chance. :)

[lee\c]

hi Lee Carmichael here in Ft Worth TX just like last time

leec

[Struan Gray]

I don't think I answered last time.

[paulr]

new york city, specifically brooklyn, more specifically, the hayloft of a civil war era brewery in the middle of the ghetto.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Andrew O'Neill, still here in Vancouver, BC (ore there abouts). Lots of time on my hands as all my stuff was stolen...as most of you know. Finding things missing almost daily and it's been 3 weeks since the incident. Today I discovered my Ilford EM10 analyzer, ilford printing filters, and 10 litre mixing pail were taken too. So, glad they didn't touch my negatives!!
Where's the rest of you Canucks out there!!

Andrew

[Jan Van Hove]

Originally from Canada, but now in Brussels, Belgium...
PJ

[Ralph Barker]

Hi, my name is Ralph, and I'm a . . .

Oh, wait. This is a different meeting. ;-)

Formerly from San Jose, I'm in the midst of moving to Rio Rancho, NM, just across the Rio Grand from Albuquerque (and lots easier to spell).

[Mark Sawyer]

Mark Sawyer, Tucson, Arizona.

"specifically brooklyn, more specifically, the hayloft of a civil war era brewery in the middle of the ghetto." I think Paul has the best ghosts...

[Jay DeFehr]

J-dot-Def's in the mother-f%$#ing forum! Representing So-west Idaho from C-town, yo.

loadin' up my holders

slippin' in my slides

foldin' up my folder

and goin' for a ride

Peace!

[David A. Goldfarb]

Back in Manhattan, 20 stories up, looking over Grant's Tomb south down the Hudson.

[Hugh Sakols]

El Portal, CA

Along the Merced River

[Chuck Bradford]

Living in Cape Girardeau, Mo, but shooting in Colo. Rockies and the Smookies next month.
Thanks for all the great information...everyone!
Press On....Chuck

[Robin Coutts]

In Southern Hampshire, England

http://www.robincoutts.co.uk

[Mark_3632]

Mark

West of Gallup NM and East of Tuba City AZ

[Huib]

since 1963: Echt, a small town near Maastricht in the south of the Netherlands.

[John Cook]

Also in Springfield, MA.

Like me, it’s famous for stuff that happened a long time ago, but nothing recent.

Or as they say on the Dull Men’s Club website, “No matter where you go, there you are.”

http://www.dullmen.com/home.html

[Emrehan Zeybekoglu]

Greetings from Istanbul, Turkey..

[David Luttmann]

A big Hello from Victoria, BC, Canada.......the day after my visit to the Great Canadian Beer Festival. Please tap lightly on your keyboards from here on in!!!

[Tedd]

Hej Dave!

Were Bob & Doug McKenzie servin' up any Elsinore?

[GARY BARTON]

Hi,From sunny Ventura on the beach in california, I,m new to the form, working on building an ulf camera and restoring a cornia and B&j 8by 10.
I am finding outstanding help on the formam.
sunny days and bright skys.
Gary Barton

[David Luttmann]

Tedd,

No Bob & Doug.....but Fat Cat had a Pompeous Pompadour Porter that would blow the toque right off your head, ya hoser ;-)

[Barry Trabitz]

Manchester CT, south of Springfield MA,near Hartford CT, West of Boston and Northeast of NYC.

Barry

[Dan Fromm]

Absent Without Leave in Cherry Hill, NJ.

[Miguel Curbelo]

Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, off the Atlantic coast of northern Africa.

[darter]

Prescott, Massachusetts. Great water views.

[Robert McClure]

Greetings from the great city of Grantville, Georgia, about an hour south of Atlanta!

David Goldfarb - is Ulysses S. really buried in sight of your office building? I had no idea where he was but - whatever rang his chimes is fine by me! Ha, ha!

[Randy_5116]

Smak in da middle. Tulsa, OK.
Is the New England area and the west coast where the biggest gathering of LF'ers are?
Am I alone here?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello?

[John Kasaian]

John Kasaian checking in from Fresno, California where its 100+degrees in the Summer and as foggy as a tequila hangover in the Winter!

[darr]

Darlene Boharsik calling in from north of Key Largo and west of Homestead FLA.

http://CameraArtist.com

[Daniel Geiger]

Woodland Hills, Los Angeles area, California

[dan nguyen]

Orange County, California

will stick to film... as long as B & W film exist...

:-)

[Calamity Jane]

Dianne, from eastern Manitoba . . .

. . . camera builder, darkroom builder, equipment-a-holic, process experimenter

[austin granger]

Austin Granger checking in from out near the edge of the continent; Santa Rosa, California.

[Christopher Nisperos]

Hello from Paris, France, and a "salut" to Patrick Jan Van Hove in neighboring Brussels...feel free to contact me if you come through town for coffee ... or a glass of wine!

[George Stewart]

Port Jefferson, NY - wishing I were out west!

[Hening Bettermann]

Still in Oslo, Norway [you remember, the land of Ole Tjugen ;-) ]

[Steve McKinney]

Hiya all,

Steve McKinney here.

Here is Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[David A. Goldfarb]

http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb/temp/Grant.jpg



Robert McClure--Ulysses S. and his wife are buried in sight of my apartment, actually. My office is just a couple of blocks away, but there are a two tall buildings blocking the view (the Riverside Church, which you see to the left of Grant's Tomb, and the building behind it), and besides, my office is on the wrong side of the building. This view is from March 2005.

[ronald moravec]

Ron from Chicago. 90 deg both Sat and Sun . Too hot for a darkcloth.

I helped a neighbor sell at The The Chicago Photographic Collector Society annual show. Fewer and fewer customers every year. Either digital is taking over or photography is dying.

I couldn`t sell a nearly mint Calumet cc400 with 20" rail . One person looked at it.

I bought a 35/70 4.0 Leica zoom. Good for when I can`t carry a Zone 6.

[John Berry ( Roadkill )]

Renton, Wa. (Just south of Seattle) I know whatcha mean Ronald, this is the first year that the show-sale put on by the puget sound camera collectors society hasn't sold out it's tables. I AM a filmaholic and a pyrohead.

[Martin Drozda]

Bratislava, Slovakia.

[Graeme Hird]

Here Sir! ("Here" being Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.)

[John B.]

John here in Richmond, VA. Finally a question I can answer. Getting back to large format after a 10 year absence and upgrading to 8x10 from 4x5. Thanks to all of you for the excellent information.

[Robert Skeoch]

Rob Skeoch.... Burlington, Ontario.... it's near Toronto.

[Ed Richards]

From the Largest City in Louisiana - Baton Rogue!

[Chet_5864]

Howdy Y'all checking in from Nanaimo, BC

[ramin]

Greetings from a Viennese café!

[David Luttmann]

Hey,

Welcome Chet. Nice to see someone only an hour or so away.

[Brett Deacon]

Checking in from Laramie, Wyoming.

[David G. Gagnon]

Occasional poster, David Gagnon, checking in from Bartow, in Polk County Florida, home of the crossed paths of Charlie, Francis and Jeanne last August and September.

DG

[Peter Galea]

Present. In and out of the darkroom.
Santa Cruz, CA

[James Bleifus]

James Bleifus checking in from Cotati, CA where I'm preparing for an evening of developing film from yesterday's trip.

Cheers, James

[Mark Woods]

Mark Woods, Pasadena, CA. Slowing down from 24 fps (I've shot over 2 million feet of 35mm motion picture film) to 4x5, 5x7, and 8x10. Loving it.

Kind Regards,

Mark Woods

markwoods.com

[jnantz]

hi there i'm in warwick rhode island - just south of providence, and about 1-2 hours ( depanding on traffic ) south of boston.
no president's tombs near here, just spent 19th C factory buildings ...

[Carlos]

Hi there to all of you. Here in San Francisco, this year the fog is very cold. This is the coldest summer in five years. I had to turn the heater on this summer.
Large format, medium, and 35mm.
Hi to all!

[Gary Smith]

Hi to everyone. A misplaced Chicago native in Niigata, Japan, warm and sunny...the beginning of the rice harvest.

[larry suarez]

Larry S checking in from beautiful Santa Barbara, Ca. ... no I'm NOT a Brooks Student but run across them frequently.

[Tom Perkins]

Tom Perkins from Western Nevada and the great basin.

[Duane Polcou]

Somerset, New Jersey. Or as I like to call it of late, New Delhi on the Raritan .

[Paul Cocklin]

Frequent reader and sometimes poster checking in from Roseville, CA (near Sacramento). Looking forward to a foggy winter...

[Frank Petronio]

Frank the Crank downwind from Kodak in Spencerport, NY

[Darin Boville]

in Montara, California, about a half-hour south of San Francisco.

--Darin

www.darinboville.com

[Jeff Moore]

Checking in from scenic Kingston Springs, TN.; population--2,773. Cultural capitol of Cheatham County. :-)

[Richard Littlewood]

The South Pennine area of Yorkshire, England. U.K

[Andrey Donchev]

Andy, Bulgaria, 37, from one year in this mess...

[Mike Schiller]

I'm here on the eastern end of Tennessee in Newport TN.

-Mike

[Peter Bergdahl]

My work brought me after five years in Japan to southern China two weeks ago. Lot's of scenic photo opportunities here. Read the LF forum almost daily.

[Paul Cutler]

Dartford in Kent in the UK

[William D. Lester]

Windsor, Ontario, Canada - 5 minutes south of Detroit, Michigan

[Kevin Klazek]

Checking in from Oakville, Ontario

[David Beal]

In the far Eastern corner of Cuyahoga County Ohio, which is mispronounced about as often as Albequerque (good luck, Ralph!)

[Per Madsen]

In Copenhagen in Denmark with my Toyo.

[Diane Maher]

Here in St. Louis, MO (and it's too hot and humid here to be out with a darkcloth).

[Bill Stice]

Bill Stice from Cary, North Carolina.

[John Flavell]

In the fog this morning in Morehead, Kentucky. www.flavellphotography.com

[Bill Hahn]

North Central Massachusetts USA, small town in northern Worcester county. We got our first traffic
signal a few years ago, though it took some months for the locals to understand it....

...a few years ago a resident of my town found himself in a traffic jam caused by a herd of
dairy cows which had escaped their pen and were standing around in the road. He called the
local police to report the problem, and was floored by their first question:

"Are they Guernseys or Holsteins?"

[Greg Miller]

Monroe, NY (Hudson Valley).

[Bill_1856]

Sarasota, FL. Just moved from a large house to a small Villa, and for the first time since 1971 have no large, pleasant, Thomas-lighted, air conditioned darkroom. But I've just noticed that the garage doesn't have any windows and might work on winter nights if I park my pickemup truck outside.

[mark_5816]

Mark here in the middle of Kansas. I have everything I need, but time.

[Brian C. Miller]

Everett, WA. Its a bit north of Seattle.

[Eric Leppanen]

Still alive and well in Southern California (Orange County).

[Eric Biggerstaff]

In Parker, Colorado just south of Denver.

[George Hart]

Sitting in my office in warm and sunny Liverpool!

[Carol Flutot]

In Whittier, California, Los Angeles County!

[Jacques Augustowski]

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jacques Augustowski

[Mark Sampson]

Born, raised and still living in Rochester, N.Y.

[Mikael Hofverberg]

Stockholm, Sweden

Micke

[Tedd]

Hej på dig Micke!
Hänger du med till Norge nästa vecka?

Finally! Anyone else in here from the land of the Swedish Bikini Team?

soost.com

[John Latta]

Hello from Spokane, Washington!

Good Light

[Nitish Kanabar]

Hello from Nitish in Santa Clara, California.

[Robert McClure]

David Beal:

Now that you have raised the issue of pronunciation for your county in Ohio, "Cuyahoga" ... I was born there. Is it not pronounced "kya-hogga?"

[Pat Kearns]

Checking in from Mobile, AL on the recently wind blown Gulf Coast.

[Jim collum]

Santa Cruz, Ca. great light, great coast, (but way too many people)

jim

[Craig Schroeder]

Still flashing in Rice Lake "Wood Tick", Wisconsin.

[Chad Jarvis]

Greetings from Hagerstown, Maryland.

[Jim Galli]

Slightly N & W of area 51..........or in other parlance, the middle of nowhere. Howdy from Tonopah, Nevada. Yes, we still say Howdy once in a while. OK, not that often.

[Andy Liakos]

In Murphy, N.C. taking a week-long matting & framing class at the John C. Campbell Folk School over in Brasstown.

First day, first perfect double mat, happy.

[Ken Lee]

Hi from Boston, but wish I were in Maine.

[Chris Wong]

Hi all,
Chris from Sacramento, California

[Joseph O'Neil]

London, Ontario, Canada. Still chugging away

[Ted Harris]

Hello from New Hampshire. A note to 'leaf peepers' it looks the leaves may be turning a bit early this year. We are already seeing a bit of color .....

[Janko Belaj]

Zagreb, Croatia, Europe. "Globus"... the local pub where I will hang few shots tomorrow... ;-)

[David R Munson]

Yo. Again/still in Columbia, MO, where I continue to have no idea what's going on.

David Beal - where in Cuyahoga County? I went to high school in Chesterland and all the while worked at the Holden Arboretum.

[David A. Goldfarb]

Another ex-Clevelander here. C. F. Brush H.S., 1984.

[Frank Lahorgue]

Greetings from Lucas Valley deep in the heart of the People's Republic of Marin. Good light to you all.

[Donald Hutton]

Birmingham, Michigan...

[Frank Bagbey]

I started the last roll call, but never did post a summary. Maybe we can have a summary from this one.

The grass is always greener on the other side, until you get on the other side of the fence.

In my case you can judge for yourself, as you check in on the roll call from so many great photogenic locations around the world.

I am in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 8 hours north of New Orleans, 2 hours south of St. Louis, right smack in the middle of earthquake country and tornado country, right on the Mississippi river, 30 minutes northwest of Cairo, Illinois, in the hometown of Rush Limbaugh.
This is not a commentary, just trying to locate things a bit more descriptive than some posters.

Remember, if Kodak wants to force digitial down our throats, we can still make glass plates!

[Paul Moshay]

Paul, here in Sherman Oaks, CA. In the glorious San Fernando Valley.

[Sanders McNew]

New York, New York, just like you pictured it: Skyscrapers, traffic jams and everything.

Sanders McNew

www.mcnew.net

[Mike Lyons]

G'day shakers and movers from the far South coast of Western Australia. Next stop, Antarctica.
I'm dreaming of a (black and ) white Christmas.
Mike

[Antonio Corcuera]

Barcelona, Spain. Superb stormy end of summer with sunlight and dramatic black clouds...
Reading the forum for the last 3-4 years, contributing for a couple of months. Saludos a Miguel en Gran Canaria!

[Janko Belaj]

(So, at this moment summary would be, if I have counted correctly:)

<table>
<tr><td><tt>Americas</tt></td><td><tt>87</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Brazil</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Canada</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;8</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>USA</tt></td><td><tt>78</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Asia</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;2</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>China</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Japan</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Australia</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;2</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Europe</tt></td><td><tt>20</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Austria</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Belgium</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Bulgaria</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Croatia</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Denmark</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>France</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Netherlands</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Norway</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;2</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Slovakia</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Spain</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;2</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Sweden</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;3</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>Turkey</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;1</tt></td></tr>
<tr><td><tt>UK</tt></td><td><tt>&nbsp;4</tt></td></tr>
</table>

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

Add Emmanuel Bigler from Besançon, France to the European list.

[Scott Bacon]

Well, heck. Missed the summary... But I'm still here in the northern 'burbs' of Denver, Colorado. Much happier when I'm in the mountains. :-)

[QT Luong]

San Jose, CA, where there isn't much to photograph :-)

[Ron Mc]

Well I'm late to the show as always. Still located in Memphis, TN where I enjoy great barbque, blues and do most of my shooting in the flatlands of Eastern Arkansas.

[Dave Aharonian]

Dave Aharonian here in Vancouver BC. Been out of town for a few days so my reply's a bit slow!

[james mickelson]

James "lumberjack" Mickelson from sunny, crowded, filled with hot babes, Ocean Beach, California on my way to Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Montana right next to Wyoming. But not shooting much lately due to not enough time, no darkroom, and two teenage girls. Right now I'm trying to schedual some time with a couple who are midway into having a baby. We're shooting the entire pregnancy as art. Going to make them a nice handbound book of the experience. This will be our third shoot. I'll find a way to post some of the images. And hoping Per is still going to have his workshop in Mammoth Lakes this October. Great reading everyones posts and comments. And always wanting to meet all of you as I travel around.

[Craig Wactor]

Phoenix, AZ

[Eduardo Aigner]

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

[Andrew Ito]

Another Californian here. Torrance, CA to be exact.

[David Karp]

And another (by way of Illinois), who works in Rancho Cucamonga and lives in L.A.

[otzi]

The sun burnt country. Melbourne. AU