Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Dr. Ted, For you, its been 3 yrs since losing Irene, for me, its been 3 months since losing Donna. The LUG is like a friend that is there when you need them, and a good place to hang out. Now I was properly trained in how to use the oven, and the microwave is a wonder in its usefulness when cooking for one. But I think I have cooked only two meals in the last 3 months. It's just too much trouble for an old grouch like me. I think I can speak for all in saying that we love to hear from you, bad day or not. Don't be a stranger.................... Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 6/16/2015 4:18 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Hi Crew, > Well I'm still here even though I'm not responding much. Sometimes life > just gets slow and you wonder why are you still breathing? > > The Smart-phones - iphones etc. without question are an incredible > communication tool. And without question, "a destroyer of many > professional photographers lives" as they once were! PITY! ? > > In my case, at the sweet and youthful age of just becoming 86 incredible > years May 27, 2015. I don't really give life a hoop! Yep I still receive > medical type assignments that pay hardly enough to buy a fine bottle of > Single Malt Scotch. Heart breaking really. ? > > I suppose given my first published photo, 17 September 1951 front page of > the Ottawa Citizen-Canada newspaper that launched me into a most > incredible life as a "Happy Snapper" ? WHY? > > Well my dearest wife Irene whom I married 15 October 1949 gave me a little > 35mm ARGUS A2 camera for my first birthday, 27 May 1950 after we were > married! ( that's for the techies!) ;-) She became the toughest photo > editor you can ever imagine! > > She was always the best of the best in the search for the images that fit > the stories or were covering a documentary subject. Or whatever the > assignment! Surely that girl made me a far better photographer than any > other human being on the planet! > > And for so many years we joked about who would die first...... usually her > telling me? " If I go first you wont know how to make the oven work?" My > response always? "Not a hope given my war assignments, crashing while > driving stock cars and Sprints! Oh yeah a couple of minor plane landings > that kind of broke the plane up a bit!" Oh yeah and te helicopter that > caught fire in the High Arctic at minus 50 below! :-( > > Unfortunately she was right. "She did go first! ? 3 years now after 64 > years married!" I have quite frankly been a damn wreck since. Some days > nothing but wishing your heart would stop beating! Nor did I know how to > make the oven work!! ? > > Someone told me, "Why don't you go out and take pictures?" I had to choke > my emotions to avoid killing the SOB!!!!! > > Sorry lads & ladies a bit of a bad day and the LUG happened to be my > friends to talk with. Sorry. ? > ted > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >