Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm thinking maybe there's some weird mojo associated with shooting funerals. Last week I attended the memorial of a newspaper colleague, Jim Coleman, an 89-year-old sportswriter who was something of a legend in Canada (he won the Order of Canada years ago). I brought along my M6 and after the service saw a visage to behold: Mean Gene Kiniski, now 80 but once the former pro wrestling champion of the world, I believe. This guy's face was like a cross between a potato and a fruit leather. He consented to a quick pic outside the church and I fired away point blank with my 'cron. Light was good, background unbusy. A classic, I thought. Later, while smugly unwinding the T-Max ‹ a too-fast slackening of the film. Devastation! The horror! The film had never engaged the sprocket. Needless to say I now always check my rewind knob. And a quick not about shooting births. I never did with my three kids, but I once brought a totally inappropriate tool (a Rolleiflex TLR) while visiting my 97-year-old grandmother in her dimly lit nursing home. As she was into her final weeks I felt some moral queasiness about the whole thing but shot anyway. The result (http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=150404&size=lg )was something a bit spooky and for sure it does not hang on my wall. Lee Bacchus Vancouver