Hello from Iraq / New Member

[papagene]

Colin - Welcome to APUG from western Massachusetts. Please be safe.

gene

 

[IOS]

Big warm welcome from Chicago Il !!!!!

 

[JBrunner]

Welcome from Utah, Colin. Thank you for your service. Please be careful. (wul duh.)How do you like the Bessa?

 

[roy]

Welcome Colin and good luck out there.

 

[Ian Leake]

Welcome Colin

 

[Doug Smith]

Welcome Colin from a former RFFer. And thanks for your service. It is appreciated back home.

Doug

 

[Alden]

Peace. From Wyoming with respect and appreciation.

 

[copake_ham]

Colin,

Welcome to APUG from NYC. My nephew is due for his second deployment to Iraq in a month (Marine helicopter pilot).

Send photos from the Bessa - but best save the digi shots for another venue - we're a film forum here!

Stay safe.

 

[Dorothy Blum Cooper]

Welcome, Colin!

As a Mother of a US serviceman who went to Iraq/Kuwait and back, I thank you for you from the bottom of my heart.

Bless you & the rest of our troops, stay safe and shoot...film, that is.

D~

 

[photobizzz]

Welcome! I'm interested in seeing what you can find of interest to post from your current location. Colin, as the father of a soon to be deployed E3 from Ft. Hood, I wish you the best for this year and hope your "business" is a great success in the future. Let us know if there is anything you are having trouble finding out there, as there's always a way. best, tim

I am actually stationed out of Fort Hood. My home unit is the 49th MCB, we are under the 13th SC(E). There are quite a few Soldiers at Fort Hood, shot in the dark he/she is from my division. Tell him/her I said good luck, listen to your NCO's, and it wont last forever.

 

[noseoil]

Colin, he's 11 Bravo, so I will certainly pass along your thoughts to him. He's our only child and we're very proud of him, as we are of all of you. Thanks, tim

 

[Gay Larson]

Welcome Colin, I grew up an Army Brat so I have great respect for career military. thanks for all you do and you stay safe. Take lots of photos and let us see them.

 

[Mahler_one]

From a Vietnam era veteran...not much else to say that we don't already know. Do your best to stay safe....don't forget that jacket and helmet please.

Edwin

 

[kerrpanda]

Welcome from Kerrville, Texas! Stay safe,
Cynthia

 

[mmcclellan]

Welcome aboard, Colin! I just spent a year on the Baghdad PRT and it was an awesome experience. Hope you can do some photography while you keep the peace. Good luck and stay safe and welcome aboard!

 

[PatTrent]

A hearty welcome from California!

May God protect you and bring you safely back to the USA.

 

[Black Dog]

A hearty welcome to APUGGland!

 

[du a gwyn]

welcome to APUG photobizz from Wales,or as we say 'croeso'.nice to know there are people still out there interested in silver.take care,we are so proud of the work that you all doing out there.please pass the messege to all your friends.you are making the world a better and safer please for my kids to grow up.have you got a darkroom out there?
hwyl fawr.

 

[eskyone]

Welcome! I found this wonderful place from another member. I'm a 9 year veteran of the US Army as well. Take care. Stay safe.

 

[photobackpacker]

Welcome to Apug, Colin:

As a former Navy Pilot and Viet Nam vet you have my prayers and my most heartfelt thanks for your service. Those of us who have been there do not need to dig too deeply to remember the rollercoaster life of being far away from home, at risk and serving with the very best. We are able to fully appreciate the sacrifice you are making. Stay safe and God Bless.

 

[Dave Wooten]

Welcome Colin from Las Vegas Nevada, "You all" have a fan club here in Nevada. Thanks for everything.
God Bless.
Dave in Vegas

PS How much film do you have?

 

[Bandicoot]

Welcome. I've not been here all that long myself, but already I feel 'right at home'. I like your stuff on BetterPhoto.

By chance, just last Sunday I was looking at some B&W negatives I took when I was in Iraq in 1983-'84. It was a very different place then, in the middle of a very different war. I was using an ancient rangefinder and a pair of Pentax Spotmatics then for myself, and a pair of Nikkormats for work. There were lots of restrictions on what could be photographed, but I managed OK (only managed to get arrested once). It was illegal to take exposed undeveloped film out of the country: they wanted everything developed there so they could see what was on it. Trouble was, that meant committing it to out of date chemistry (not their fault) and the possibility that I'd get half the pictures confiscated and/or me in jail for inadvertantly shooting the wrong thing. Our embassy staff were some lovely people but always did things by the book, so some rather more free-wheeling friends from the New Zealand embassy put it in their diplomatic bag for me and eventually I got my films back after a two month round trip via Christchurch. Lots of memories...

Be safe, and I hope film is all that you will need to shoot.


Peter

 

[NavyMoose]

Welcome from Boston. Thank you for your service and be safe! I was Navy and now I'm Air Force Reserve.

 

[BWKate]

Welcome to Apug Colin! Looking forward to the postcard you're sending me! You are on my postcard Round#13 Exchange list. Hopefully you received my card that I sent you.

 

[zenrhino]

Welcome and thanks!

How do your cameras hold up over there with all the dust and grit and sand?