Sounds like a good promise for the future if you see an upturn when most
everything else is on hold or still turning down.
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Crawford wrote:
> I agree on both counts. I have been given a lot of stuff over the years, and
> a lot of stuff has left my hands to help others too. There's a guy on the
> Cosina Voigtlander User List who is a teacher in California. He and a couple
> of other teachers out there started a photo program for poor immigrant kids
> out there, using donated cameras, film, and chemicals. The school system
> they work for wants nothing to do with it, so they go out to the migrant
> labor camps where the kids parents are picking out vegetables and they give
> the kids cameras and film and teach them to use them to photograph their
> families and friends and their everyday lives. They just put out a book of
> the kids' photos, and the stuff was really incredible. I've sent him several
> lenses and I have a few other things to send once I make it to the post
> office again.
>
> I've given stuff to others too over the years as well. It feels good to see
> others able to have fun with the gear that I don't need, and I think pays
> back for the immense help I have gotten from others over the years as I
> struggled with poverty and inability to find a job or make a decent living.
> Things are getting better for us here, I have been selling enough of my
> photos off my website to support us without much struggle in the last year.
> We're not middle class yet, but we're not hurting bad either. Despite the
> economy, which is REALLY REALLY BAD here in Indiana, my life is getting
> better.
>
>
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