Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dr. Ted, please be sure you keep your camera on when we visit. We Californians do not like feeling earthquakes in other places :-) Ha ha On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > > Alan Magayne-Roshak OFFERED: > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Why I Always Carry A Camera > Seen at sunset in the parking lot after shopping for groceries. > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/20140921 > _MR_Mine_LMX1020134.jpg.html> > > I know the sun moves fast, so I pulled out my camera quickly and let my > shopping cart roll on. > By the time I retrieved it, the light was off the arrow.<<<<<<<<<<<< > > > Hi Alan, > Well I always carry my camera here in Victoria my home city built on > Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean for one reason and one reason > only!! > > The seismologists' have been telling the inhabitants on Vancouver Island > that some day the BIG ONE WILL HAPPEN!!" :-( > The "BIG ONE" MEANING A "GIGANTIC EARTHQUAKE AND THE WHOLE ISLAND!" ...... > it's about 300 hundred miles north-south in length. about 100 miles in the > widest center section and a fair number of good sized mountains.. > > "IT'S GOING TO SLIDE INTO AND UNDER A GOOD PORTION OF THE PACIFC OCEAN" > They've been telling us for years and once in a while we get a bit of rock, > rattle and roll! So I never go anywhere without my Leica rangefinder camera > just in case the "BIG ONE HITS!":-) > > I have got it all worked out after a couple of rolling moments when didn't > have my camera. BUT IN OVER 30 YEARS LIVING HERE???????? AS LONG AS MY > LEICA > IS ON MY SHOULDER THERE'S NEVER BEEN A SQUEAK OF EARTH MOVING, > > SO I'M THE SAVIOUR OF THE ISLAND!!!! As long as I have my Leica everything > is going to be cool and still! > > NO CAMERA? SURE AS HELL I'LL BE SWIMMING IN THE PACFIC DUE TO NOW HAVING A > HOME ON THE WATER FRONT! OR UNDER IT! :-) > > cheers, > ted > > > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 > UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 > amr3 at uwm.edu > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5315 / Virus Database: 4158/8254 - Release Date: 09/21/14 > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5315 / Virus Database: 4158/8254 - Release Date: 09/21/14 > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5315 / Virus Database: 4158/8241 - Release Date: 09/19/14 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits