Since you were interested in seeing Gary's collection of leathers & boots, I first must verify some info, before we can progress any further...

On May 1, 1999 (a few days before final examinations started that semester), I received an email complaint that was distributed to several people at the university where I work, asking me me to remove access to this collection of my photographs.

> Dear Not-so-Good-Sir,
>
> Your web page has disturbed me. I need to sleep tonight. I have
> exams on Monday. With your vivid images in my mind, I'm not sure I'll be
> able to do so without consuming some controlled substances. Either
> way, my exam-taking potential is impaired - PERMANENTLY! We all have our
> little dark corners of our lives now, don't we? I don't have to link
> my dark corners to the university's web-page. Please, for the love of
> humanity, disengage your dark secrets from my university. Thanks for
> your consideration.

That same week, my boss received a phone call from someone on the other side of the country, with a totally different complaint about the same set of photographs. This telephone complaint claimed that my photo page was residing on my employer's web page (despite the fact that it was housed on an AOL account, and never on my employer's web pages), and the caller offered to inform my employer's president of my "lewd & nude photographs". Later that same day, several copies of my photographs were printed out, and marked up with various comments, such as "Is there something about our librarian that we need to know?", left near the printers in several computer labs.

I decided that there was too much weirdness going on at one time, and for the sake of my job, I blocked access to those photographs.

These photographs are Copyrighted 1998-2008
and owned by Gary M Klein.

If you are interested in helping Gary
to add to his collection, feel free to
contact him:

garymklein@comcast.net
Gary M Klein
Salem, Oregon 97303 USA

Last modified May 7, 2008