setuporg Posted January 4, 2020 Share #1 Posted January 4, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) Are there any meetups in SF? With Leica SF and Camera West, we're one of the strongest centers of Leica in the world. I see numerous members from the Bay Area in various subforums here. Any interest in a meetup? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 Hi setuporg, Take a look here San Francisco Bay Area meetings. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
AlanJW Posted January 4, 2020 Share #2 Posted January 4, 2020 Please pm me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyturk Posted January 4, 2020 Share #3 Posted January 4, 2020 I'm interested. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calijax Posted January 6, 2020 Share #4 Posted January 6, 2020 Same Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted January 7, 2020 Share #5 Posted January 7, 2020 Thank you for your posts. Good idea! We will see if Camera West can be a host for a meetup. It would be extremely helpful if someone who is in San Francisco helped out with things like sending emails and keeping track of responses. We can provide an email list of local members. Our administrator, Richard Rejino, will help out of course, but having someone "on the ground" is very helpful. Please PM me if you are interested and we will get the ball rolling. As for an official LHSA annual or spring meeting, we last had one in San Francisco in 2014 and there is a general rule of 10 years before a host city is repeated. We had a meeting in Vancouver in 2016 and the 2020 annual meeting will be in Seattle. The Spring shoot in 2020 is Colorado Springs. More info is on the website. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted January 7, 2020 Share #6 Posted January 7, 2020 Can it be confirmed that ALL forum members would be welcome at this meeting, not just LHSA members? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted January 7, 2020 Share #7 Posted January 7, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) 5 hours ago, andybarton said: Can it be confirmed that ALL forum members would be welcome at this meeting, not just LHSA members? Yes. If there is a SF meetup, it would be organized with help from LHSA but open to others, who, I would hope, would thereafter consider joining LHSA. For official regularly scheduled meetings (Annual Meeting and Spring Shoot), they are generally members-only. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted January 7, 2020 Share #8 Posted January 7, 2020 I read the OP request as being one just for Forum members, and not necessarily the LHSA. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted January 7, 2020 Share #9 Posted January 7, 2020 I think you're right. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted January 10, 2020 Share #10 Posted January 10, 2020 On 1/7/2020 at 3:07 PM, AlanJW said: Yes. If there is a SF meetup, it would be organized with help from LHSA but open to others, who, I would hope, would thereafter consider joining LHSA. For official regularly scheduled meetings (Annual Meeting and Spring Shoot), they are generally members-only. It seems like the LHSA would like to turn the forum meeting into a marketing opportunity. Personally I think that would dampen my ardour a little. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted January 10, 2020 Share #11 Posted January 10, 2020 4 hours ago, farnz said: It seems like the LHSA would like to turn the forum meeting into a marketing opportunity. Personally I think that would dampen my ardour a little. Pete. Sheesh Pete. If we help organize a meeting, is it really inappropriate to take one minute out to ask people to think about joining the organization? That's all I ever envisioned. Look at my post. I said I hoped people would thereafter consider joining. Nothing heavy handed about that. In fact, I'd like you to consider joining as I think you could add a lot, so I'll offer you a deal: I'll personally pay for 6 months of membership, after which you can decide whether to continue. How about it? PM me if you are interested. Alan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted January 11, 2020 Share #12 Posted January 11, 2020 12 hours ago, AlanJW said: Sheesh Pete. If we help organize a meeting, is it really inappropriate to take one minute out to ask people to think about joining the organization? That's all I ever envisioned. Look at my post. I said I hoped people would thereafter consider joining. Nothing heavy handed about that. In fact, I'd like you to consider joining as I think you could add a lot, so I'll offer you a deal: I'll personally pay for 6 months of membership, after which you can decide whether to continue. How about it? PM me if you are interested. Alan Hi Alan, No insult or offence intended and I was simply commenting on how the thread has developed. If potential attendees are content for LHSA to take over organising the meeting then that's fine of course. I'm a little circumspect of latent marketing techniques (for unconnected reasons) and I accept that this is not how LHSA goes about its business. Thank you for your very kind and gracious offer which I won't take up. I was a LHSA member some years ago but let my membership lapse as it didn't suit my needs. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted January 11, 2020 Share #13 Posted January 11, 2020 Nobody volunteered to organize, so we have stepped up. Camera West has agreed to host a meetup for any and all. Stand by here for more information as we find a date, etc. Most likely will be March-April timeframe. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted January 30, 2020 Share #14 Posted January 30, 2020 The date for the SF meetup will be March 14 at Camera West. There will be a Leica representative there as well. Time is TBD. Watch this space for more details. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted February 26, 2020 Share #15 Posted February 26, 2020 The SF meetup is now set, thanks to great work from the people at Leica Store SF and Leica. Here is a link with a description of the plans and way to rsvp: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leica-store-san-francisco-photography-event-tickets-95482114575 The meetup will run from 10 am to 2 pm on Saturday, March 14, 2020 at Leica Store SF, 463 Bush Street, San Francisco CA There will be photo walks with Leica pro specialist Ray Olson; a strobe lighting session with a model, a printer onsite (with one free gallery print per attendee), all photo books will be 25% off, and all attendees who are not already LHSA members will be offered a free one year digital membership. There will also be demos of Leica gear, including M10 Monochrom. For questions, please contact Leica Store San Francisco: (415) 801-5066 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calijax Posted February 26, 2020 Share #16 Posted February 26, 2020 Looks great... looking forward to this. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradS Posted March 6, 2020 Share #17 Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Sounds like fun. Will there be a photo exhibit hanging in the store gallery ? edit: yes! Frank Fournier , “Red Eye - Seventies New York” http://gallery.leicastoresf.com/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/red-eye-seventies-new-york/ Edited March 6, 2020 by BradS Lemme google that for you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted March 10, 2020 Share #18 Posted March 10, 2020 PLEASE NOTE THAT THE MEET-UP ON MARCH 14 AT LEICA STORE SAN FRANCISCO HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS. NO INFORMATION YET ON A NEW DATE. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calijax Posted March 10, 2020 Share #19 Posted March 10, 2020 Darn, will stay tuned for a reschedule! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanc Mac Posted June 12, 2020 Share #20 Posted June 12, 2020 I am up to a meeting and a photo walk.... But not in San Francisco.. Maybe in the Sierras or south coast.. San Francisco is not what it used to be in many ways Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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