Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted - I still wear those photo vests!! It's the best way to get lots of equipment on an airplane without being charged extra for baggage. They haven't started weighing passengers yet! Everything I can fit into a Domke vest is free on the plane. I don't really care what I look like - especially when people are traveling like this: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-482574 Your grandson sounds like a chip off the old block. I just hope there is still a photojournalism career available when he graduates!! The iReporters seem to be taking over for free and a possible byline. :-( LOL Tina On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:17 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > >> I also have a half dozen or more "photo vests!" Remember those? With all > the pouches for 50 rolls of film, spare lens or two, note pad, > accreditation > and passport pouch, Start list for the races of the day, big back pouches > for heaven knows what you might put in there... a 280mm Leica 2.8! And > another big bottom pouch for a light weight rain poncho. > I gave a bunch of them away to young guys starting at a local photo school > and one to my grandson along with an M6 and 35mm f 1.4 lens. He'll begin > college next month learning to be a written journalist and photographer. > Then hopefully become a TV journalist At his interview last week he was > asked ..."Where did you get your interest in photography?" > > Dr. ted :-) > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com