It's very informal. There is no president, secretary, treasurer, no membership fees. I'm the founder, but I firmly believe in the Wikipedia principle. Members can publish their pictures, stories, and edit.
Gabriel Alwis is an old friend who was a jack-of-all-trades at Studio Times, Colombo. We used to print black and white together in his home darkroom. He has given me a lot of old camera accessories and photo gear which I treasure. Now retired, he is undergoing kidney dialysis. As he's still very keen about photography, I want to take him around and shoot pictures with him.
That's how I got the idea for this club. We both use retro equipment. I want to teach my children how to use old cameras and manual focus lenses. This will be a specialist skill in future, like driving very old cars with sliding mesh gear boxes. I've talked to a couple of other friends who were keen amateur photographers at one time, and hope they too, will join. My friend Mayadunne from Kandy is one and he's very interested.
All of us have to do this amongst various problems, including finding the time and money, in a country with raging inflation for the past five years and little public interest in this kind of thing. We have no axes to grind and none of us are famous photographers. Who cares? I'm already enjoying myself to the hilt, and look forward to our first outing to the Colombo zoo this Friday!
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