[Leica] Industrial Canyon

[ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)]

Looking forward to your improved mobility!!

ric


On Feb 25, 2014, at 2:13 AM, Jim Hemenway <jim at hemenway.com> wrote:

> Dear Fellow Luggers:
> 
> I haven't been active here for sometime, but I've been trying to keep up 
> with things by reading many of your posts.
> 
> This photo was shot a couple of years ago in Lowell Massachusetts on 
> Ektachrome 100 with my 11x14 view camera, I showed it here at that time, 
> Fall 2012.
> 
> http://www.hemenway.com/IndustrialCanyon-11x14-200072-Ekta100.png
> 
> It's part of a small personal project of mine to shoot a lot of photos of 
> the locks, canals and mills in Lowell with some accompanying history of 
> what is sometimes called America's first industrial city... the industry 
> being mostly the weaving of huge amounts of wool in equally huge water 
> powered weaving mills, all beginning in the early 1800s.
> 
> After I shot this I began having some problems with my right hip!
> 
> It has been so painful that I had to stop using the 11x14 but kept 
> shooting some digital  "scouting" photos for further use with the 11x14 
> and my Leica R8 and Leica FishFlex when some of my skeleton parts could be 
> repaired.
> 
> Finally it came to the point this past October when I could no longer walk 
> more than a few feet/meters and the following two digital scouting shots 
> are my last:
> 
> This is a view of the first shot, Industrial Canyon from the other end of 
> the canal.
> http://www.hemenway.com/PawtucketCanal.jpg
> 
> This is the Hamilton canal, parallel to the first.
> http://www.hemenway.com/HamiltonCanal.jpg
> 
> But after lots of tests and various medications, my heart has been cleared 
> so that I can get a hip transplant tomorrow. Hopefully it will be a day 
> that I can remember with pleasure for a long time.
> 
> So if you fell like it, please wish me luck (off list)... with a lot of 
> that and a successful procedure, I'll be back in a few months with more of 
> my project completed.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim
> 
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