Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Herb, the magic elixir is Lagavulin. And let me know if you do make it to Seattle, please! Jay On 6/16/2015 5:53 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > Oh Ted! I?m dying to meet you. Yet, travel is getting tricky. Besides > being totally beholden to two cats?there are a number of other partially > idiotic reasons we haven?t traveled for a few years. First, I?m a bit of > an asshole, and I got so pissed off at airport security theater that I > decided one day that if I couldn?t drive there, I?d not go there. Part of > it is a temper, and I figured it was only a matter of time before I?d lose > my cool and say things that could get me arrested. Especially when the > bastards x-rayed film when FAA regs said you had the right to demand hand > inspection. > > Now my wife is losing her sight?she?s only three years younger than me and > I was 93 last week. So, a long car trip now means I do all the driving, > which I?m happy to do, but I?m not sure I can talk her into it. I?d Love > to visit Seattle and then to north to Vancouver, BC. > > So, you have my sympathy. When I get physically down, I get bloody > depressed, and it occurs periodically whenever my red blood count goes > down (anemia-fought by a drug injection). And, if I lose Lee, it will be > relatively catastrophic, because I never learned to cook. > > I forgot the name of the Scotch you and others brag about. I must buy a > bottle and see what all the shouting is about. I remember it begins with > ?L? but that doesn?t make the name unique. > > Cheers, > > Herb > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > >> On Jun 16, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> 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