Imagine April in Santa Fe… And living and working as a freelance photographer. The 2018 LHSA Spring Shoot will take place from April 19-22 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. With its legendary photographic history, this promises to be an inspirational, spectacular,...
During the mid-1960's (my college years) I purchased my first Leica, a used IIIg with several lenses. As expected, the results were excellent. I sought assistance from others with more Leica Experience than I. Ohio State University Professor, Al Clarke,...
Join Tom Brichta, landscape photographer, along with Camera West, and Phaseone as we discover, California’s Big Sur Coastline.For three days we will explore this beautiful coastline from Carmel to Julia Pfieffer Burns State Park. Our home base for this...
Traveling West in search of fortune, gold and silver, American pioneers settled all along the Rocky Mountains, where geologic uplift laid bare access to deposits of valuable minerals and ores. The craggy beauty of this rugged terrain also created...
When I was an impoverished student in London in the 70s I used to cycle past a camera shop in Paddington (I’ve long since forgotten the name and I imagine that it has long since disappeared). In the window was a Leica CL. I lusted after it, once or twice...
As part of LHSA’s 50th Anniversary Year, we are featuring a special translation of Erich Stenger's history of the Leica Camera, originally published in 1949 in German for the E. Leitz Company's 100th Anniversary. The translation was arranged for by Fred...
This year’s attendees to the Annual Meeting will have a choice of two hotels: The arcona Living Ernst Leitz Hotel and the Michel Hotel Wetzlar. Hotel Reservations may be made by telephone or email; however, LHSA highly recommends that you make...
LHSA'S TRANSFORMATIONSustaining a membership organization in today’s times of social media and the changing needs and wants of new generations is difficult. Sustaining a photography oriented organization, especially in the age of digital...
CITY & HOTEL Discover Santa Fe, a unique city with a robust history. Honored as one of the world's most creative cities, Santa Fe has remained rooted in the artistic community for over a century. Established by Don Pedro Peralta circa 1609, the city...
David G. SPIELMAN is a freelance photographer with over 40 years of experience. Personal work and assignments have taken Spielman to six of the seven continents. Four major books have been published of his work. Subjects on and about Southern Writers,...
