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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hi guys,

Yes, I have been mysteriously quiet of late! Put it down to hyper-enthusiasm but I can tell you, get an assistant to schlepp heavy gear! Anyway, I'm now slowly getting mobile after being flat on my back from a disc problem. I want to thank everyone for looking after OPF and each other.

Asher :)
 

Kathy Rappaport

pro member
Two Assistants for you...

Asher,

I think we can easily find two assistants for you...maybe from Hef's place in Holmby Hills.....you'd just chat them up and they'd be ready, willing and able at a moment's notice to do any heavy lifting for you.
 

janet Smith

pro member
Had a disc problem myself some years ago, I know the pain you'll be going through, take care, be patient and please accept my wishes to you for a full recovery.
 

Michael Fontana

pro member
Good morning Asher

take care; I hope you will recover soon.

Disc problems aren't resolved within a week, frequenting warm thermal bathes were the best solution in my case, some years ago. Make sure that the inflammation is not at the peak, when going there.
 
Odaijini (how Japanese say get well) and a postcard from Bolivia. (I got on top of my 4x4 with my Mamiya) The message is something like: The beginning of the rest of a fantastic on going trip

Barreto_landscape_01.jpg
 

doug anderson

New member
Hi guys,

Yes, I have been mysteriously quiet of late! Put it down to hyper-enthusiasm but I can tell you, get an assistant to schlepp heavy gear! Anyway, I'm now slowly getting mobile after being flat on my back from a disc problem. I want to thank everyone for looking after OPF and each other.

Asher :)

Asher: Bummer. Take care of that back!

Get well soon.

D
 
It is a very well behaved forum, even in these trying times isn't it? You can rest comfortably knowing that. I hope your back gets better soon and you are good as new once again.
James
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Just a brief update! I am still out of action. Am under good care but cannot do any work at all. So guys, OPF is under your total steerage until the damage resolves, which it will. The good thing is that I will not schlepp heavy gear but have it set up and rearrange my shooting based on permanent set up for my portraits and figure studies. However, for now, all I can do is check in and enjoy what you are doing and try to catch up on reviewing photography books and my own pictures.

So the challenge for everyone is to make things work and be vibrant. I'l post when I can.

Thanks to Cem for taking on some extra administrative chores!

I'll make up for things once I'm recovered which I promise will not be too long!

Asher
 

Kathy Rappaport

pro member
Some of us

Besides wishing you well, can call you and report on the happenings.

Asher, sorry to hear that you are flat out. You are sure missed around here although we're all doing a bit of lifting until you are ready to do so.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Kathy,

I need to hear more on your studio! That updating will make me feel great! You, Georg Baumann and Leonardo each have built new studios and reporting on them will inspire a lot of others here in OPF!

I will post when the stuff kicks in! Otherwise I'm resting. I'm a bulldog so I will get past this! I'm already planning to improve my studio so don't have to schlepp thinI'm going to go for Elinchron that just opens! I want to work now with zero physical aggravation!

Asher
 

Kathy Rappaport

pro member
Asher,

When you are ready to shoot, let me know and I will come and be your sherpa.
As for my studio, I have a shoot next week that I will post here. Business could be better, I got a few orders for different things so it's picking up for me, but, then I have been doing a bit of numbers crunching since October 15th is a tax deadline for our wayward clients on extension. (in the USA we can file taxes for the prior year with a filing extension to 10/15).
 

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Hi Asher
good to see that you haven't lost your (British?) sense of humo(u)r!

So as you may see I'm back in Bordeaux from a wonderfull vacation trip in NYC, almost a week of sun! (the black week at wallstreet though).

So now stay well, ask Wendy for a cup of tea and relax, I can join my forces to Cem's (which I thank BTW for the excellent way he did support OPF).

Back to work!
 
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