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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: The Beginning
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 10:39:38 +0100
Thanks, Jim.  I love the story as well as the photo.

Chris

> On 7 Jun 15, at 20:24, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> When my wife and I settled into an apartment in Dayton, OH in 1951, I was a 
> raw USAF 2nd Lieutenant, with no car, and very little in the way of 
> possessions.  We had received a Kodak Brownie Flash 620 camera as a wedding 
> gift.  Our idle time was often spent walking in the Salem Avenue 
> neighborhood, and the Dayton Art Institute was within our path.  This is one 
> of my first photographs, scanned from an album print that was more than 50 
> years old.  This is how it all began for me, and within a year I had a used 
> Leica IIIa and a growing love of photography.
> 
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Dayton+Art+Institute+1951+Revisited.jpg.html
>  
> <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Dayton+Art+Institute+1951+Revisited.jpg.html>

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