New York April Meet-Up

Ugh...to quote Phil Collins, I missed again.

However, it was a bad weekend to do very much: had a lot of work-related stuff happening, and I was a bit under the weather to boot. Will make it for May, though. Glad y'all had fun at this one!


- Barrett
 
mervynyan said:
in anticipation of m10, trading my chrome m7 and 50, and d700, and canon f-1n with 85/1.2, damn, leica is expensive...
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I'm right in line behind you. Right off the bat I'm thinking of culling down to only keeping my Nikon F3P as my only SLR body and selling my Noct-Nikkor. The F'2's with DE-1 eye level prisms look kinda cool, but...

If I get a M-10 I'll still shoot film, but my kit will become more Leica-centric. Depending on how good a M-10 might be I might also cull down the herd of medium format to only 2 or three cameras.

Cal
 
NaChase said:
Hey all, I don't know how often you guys have these meet-ups, but I will be moving to upstate NY next month and would love to indulge in all things range findery with you all. Next time, perhaps.
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We meet-up every month. If you are going to be around give us the heads up so we can make it easy for you to attend.

Nice to see that some RFF'ers are moving to New York City because its a great place to shoot.

Cal
 
Calzone said:
Nice to see that some RFF'ers are moving to New York City because its a great place to shoot.
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Well, if you want to talk about shooting, Philly still ranks number 1 in the country! (not necessarily with a camera though...)

Phil Forrest
 
2006 was our banner year for overall violent crime and murder. I think we hit 407 murders that year, a bunch of them in my neighborhood (where I used to live.) It was crazy. I got yelled at by a police helicopter twice with the light shining on me and such. That was while I was sitting on my porch or in the driveway messing with my old jeep. We had police in pursuit running through the yard and surrounding the block multiple times. I'm in an arguably better hood now even though it's only 8 blocks away from the old place.
That was the year I moved to Philly and was coming to grips with the hypervigilance of PTSD. Holy cow did it cause a lot of anxiety.

Phil Forrest
 
Phil_F_NM said:
Well, if you want to talk about shooting, Philly still ranks number 1 in the country! (not necessarily with a camera though...)

Phil Forrest
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Phil

As you know I lived in New Mexico for a year and a half and got invited to join a machine gun club.

Are you saying Philly is the number one city where you are most likely to get shot because its common, or because gun culture is so popular and prevelant there, or both.

Anyways the two times I had guns drawn on me happen to be NYC police. I really don't count the times when I was accually shot at with a shotgun because I was trespassing and it was loaded with salt rounds.

Around the time the Rolling Stone song "Heart Breaker" was popular I was a real skinny kid in the early seventies who looked like a stick figure. Just like in the song it was a case of mistaken identity when a cop car screech to a halt late one night when I just happen to be walking alone; but when the two cops jumped out yelling for me to freeze, I was so startled it would of just been natural instinct to run because the cops totally surprised me came out of nowhere. In the song "Heartbreaker" the boy ran and was killed by the police, and this was based on a true story.

First I was warned not to move or they would shoot, as one cop fanned out of my FOV so I couldn't see him to better kill me, then I was directed to move slowly only and only when directed or else they would shoot first and ask questions later. I played a lethal game of "Simon Says" without getting shot when they asked for my I.D., but they left as fast as they came, no apology, they just said, "We were looking for someone else."

I knew the cops were deeply and seriously afraid, and the only thing I figured made sense was that I was mistaken for Tommy TXX who live in the next town in Queens as this occured right along the Nassau Queens border that divided the suburbs from NYC. I knew of Tommy because Asians were novelties in those surroundings back then in the early seventies. The only thing that made sense is that Tommy Kung-Fu'ed a cop, because that would explain the cops fears of sudden moves and no interest in any weapons.

The second time I was inadvertantly in the gunsights of the NYPD was because I was in the line of fire during a robbery when the cops stormed the McDonalds that was being robbed by four gunmen (two with pistols and two with rifles), and one of the gunman was directly behind me.

If there had been a firefight I would have been "colateral damage." If it turn out to be a hostage situation the hostage would likely been me. Luckily the pistol was on top of all the money in the box that the robber was carrying and was not handy. I was working one of the front registers, when the cops yelled freeze everyone in the store hit the floor except me and the robber who was directly behind me.

After the place was secured by the police, I happen to be in the front. The robber who had the cash box was handcuffed with his hands behind him being detained by one cop, when one of the two store managers jumped the counter to get revenge on the robber who earlier was pistol whipping him because he would not open the safe. The manager knocked down the handcuffed man and proceeded to repeatedly kick him in direct view of the cop who just stood by and watched. Eventually the cop raised his hand to gently say, "That's enough," but it was spoken in such a demeaner that it could have meant, "only one more shot, make it a good one," or "If you don't stop I'll have to raise my voice."

Cal
 
I needed a change from the west coast. I had driven across the country from Pacific to Atlantic and back in the summer of 2005 during my last month in the Navy. I liked Philly and decided to move there one day. As it turned out I also liked Temple University which I got to visit on that 2005 trip. It was cheap, had a respected history program (I started as a history major then added journalism and graduated with a minor in history) so I just figured I'd move to Philly. I'd always lived in the country or big city suburbs so I figured I had to get a real urban experience so Philly was like a light version of NYC.
Now I've got Philly under my belt, it's time to move out of the "6th borough" and to the big leagues of NYC.

Phil Forrest
 
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