Re: [Leica] Travel and film

["Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>]

If ever a set of shots left me wanting to see more of them, these did. I
especially liked this

http://www.englandphotographic.com/thedock.html

Dang, boy, you're good!

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com



- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee England" <engl6914@cableone.net>
To: "leica-users (for posts)" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: [Leica] Travel and film


> Regarding travel and film I'm reminded of an incident in the Jackson,
Miss.
> Airport 10 months ago.  I put my 35 mm film without plastic canisters into
a
> ziplock and asked for a hand check at security.  It was hand checked all
> right.  After a wand was passed over it I was informed the canisters had
> flunked 3 out of 3 tests for C4 plastic explosive and was I in the
military
> or the police.  By then I had four burly uniformed guards around me while
I
> tried to explain how I was just going to the LSU-Florida game and really
> wished I'd run this film through Xray.  Then the Delta rep was brought in
to
> peer at me and the film.  The plane's ready to pull away.  Finally they
let
> me on with the film.
>     Since then I've put the film--ASA 400, Ilford--in a lead bag and run
it
> through XRay with the camera in the Domke bag.  Only once has the film
been
> pulled out of the lead bag for inspection, including trips through
Gatwick,
> Charles de Gaulle, Atlanta, Jackson, Jacksonville, Boston, Baton Rouge,
> Houston, Leon (Mexico) and New Orleans.  Much faster and quicker, and I've
> had no problem with the film.
>
> On another note, after a lot of frustrating effort with Adobe Go Live I've
> managed to make an internet site for photos of these various trips and of
> other wanderings through the backwoods of Mississippi in a Range Rover,
> almost all taken with an M2---www.englandphotographic.com
>
> Lee England
> Natchez, Miss.
>
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