[Leica] Ted and Brad and Karen and Karen AND JIM MARSHALL!;-)

["Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>]

 Hi Gang,

A CameraWorld Portland Oregon report.

As many of you know I went to the CameraWorld photo extravaganza on Friday
to present a bunch of Leica slide images to a breathless audience. ;-) Ya
right!;-)

As I entered the arrivals lounge in Portland a person approached and said,
" Ted, Mark Rabiner, welcome to Portland!" :-)

Well like many of us the LUG we are friends by screen but at most times we
are not hand shaking in the flesh face to face friends.... that was up till
that moment.

Finally after probably close to four years it became a warm hand shake
friend to friend greeting. For those of you who've never enjoyed the
experience I'll once again say that it's one of the best, certainly far
better than playing with the toys, moments of finally meeting, greeting and
the hand shake of a fellow LUG nut face to face.

Sure beats the hell out of the name on the screen friendship. Now there is a
real person, a warm blooded Leica carrying human being and not some visual
nonentity. Wonderful.

We spent a short time together with the Leica rep for the Northwest, Brad
Weeks who at that time told us the other Leica speaker was Jim Marshall and
he was speaking on Saturday morning.

Unfortunately I did my thing and had to leave early this morning missing
Jim's slide presentation.  However, I did meet him for lunch on Friday and
enjoyed this "wild man of Leica and rock and roll fame!

Man he is just something else, an absolute ball of energy and talking a blue
streak with words in mili-second bursts, we rapped about who we
photographed, hassled the young waitress, well OK he hassled the waitress...
for those of you who think Jim is still the young guy we see in pictures as
a "young rock & roll chasing shooter" he isn't, although certainly has the
energy level of a 20 year old!

He now collects his social security cheque and recently turned 65, which
makes him a spring chicken to the old fart here. ;-) But there must be
something about this Leica and photography thing to keep old guys and with
no reason to think otherwise, lady shooters also, young. And even though we
drag our asses after a major shoot, their seems to be energy levels we have
that I don't see in others who've not played at the great game of
photography during their lives.

I saw an "O Leica" fresh out of the box, it truly is a strange looking and
feeling machine, not something I took to quickly and warmly, but more a
curiosity toy to handle for a moment and then turn into a table ornament!
:-)  Sorry to those of you who've lurched to the bank and bought one. ;-)

After I did my thing with slides I spent a wonderful evening with Mark and
his gracious wife Karen who cooked a great home made spaghetti meal, which
was also shared with Karen Schreiber and her daughter visiting from
California.

We checked out Mark's photo operation and looked at "real prints," always a
joy compared to the on the screen snaps of any site.

The evening closed with Mark and Karen returning me to the hotel where I
departed very early this morning for home with a plane load of high school
teen agers going on the yearly "March school break!"  My gawd how could
there be that much noise in one plane! ;-)

So there you go folks... meeting Mark Rabiner and Jim Marshall all in one
shot is something I'll savor for some time to come! :-)

Best of all? The Rabiner hand shake and smile!   Thanks Mark! :-)
ted


















Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: [Leica] Ted and Brad and Karen and Karen


> No Alice
> Had ice tea and pie (no guts to try the coffee) at "Sharies" (Tanya
Harding's
> hangout) by the airport with Ted and Brad Weeks the Leica Rep.
> I had met Ted as he came off the plane. Brad we ran into in the middle of
the
> airport he was running a tad late changing cars. I tucked a box with a few
of
> Ted's books under my arm as we made it through the airport.
>
> I've really gotten to know Ted over the years over the email waves. Talked
to
> him on the phone once or twice.
> And we just got along just fine in person. Of course an amazingly nice guy
in
> person as on the email waves.
>
> Sushi is still an option today but we've already got the sauce on for the
> spaghetti with meatballs and sausage all from fresh tomatoes which Karen
Rabiner
> did. (But i might mess with it)
>
> We've got another Karen, Karen Schreiber making the 12 hour car trip up
from the
> bay area, a lug lurker with her daughter.
>
> She will be eating some of the spaghetti tonight and checking out Ted's
show
> today if she makes it in time.
>
> She'd doing Ted's seminar in Maine.
> So we'll be meeting them for the first time tonight she left a nice
message on
> my phone last night she sounds very nice.
>
> I'm going to franticly mat and frame and hang as many pix as i can on the
walls
> around here. 3 hours worth.
> 16x20's on 20x24 mats, or whatever fits in 11x14 all black metal frames.
Museum
> rag board.
> Painted the place 3 or 4 years ago but am no longer in love with the
paint. Time
> for the pictures to go back up.
> Most have melted in the basement.
> I picked up 50 bucks + worth of made in Germany special brass hooks which
go
> into the walls with 1, 2 or 3 twisting pins.
> I use two hooks for each picture and loop the wire in the back of the
frame so
> it is a double loop to accommodate.
> Triple time overkill i could hang an anvil on the wall and it would
survive any
> earthquake with this arrangement.
> And it makes for the pictures not going crooked with every truck going by.
>
> So I've got these gorgeous hooks on the walls all over my House/studio.
The
> darkroom in the basement. The livingroom/diningroom is my shooting studio.
> Nothing on the walls of the studio though: pure funtion...white light
bouncing
> all over the place supposedly.
>
> The show at camera world will have 2 or 3  heavy hitters in Ted's league
but no
> promotion. No program.
> I guess I'll show up at around 1:30 and see whose talking and showing
slides.
> Ted is a 4:30. Hope I'm not the only one in the audience.
> I'll do a local email to round up the usual photogeek suspects over there.
>
> Afterwards we come over here and eat the spaghetti and watch the pictures
on the
> walls. Oh and my portfolios are probably not in order. One inkjet, one
fiber.
> Others.... I'll go though those real quick, shread the trash.
> The file room is respectable, the darkroom is clean.
>
> NO ARCHIVE
> Mark Rabiner
>
> Portland, Oregon
> USA
> http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/