[Leica] I'm still here!

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

Dear Ted, I regret that we never had the pleasure of meeting Irene. Through
your memories, we get to know this wonderful person just a little bit.
Thank you.


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:18 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
>
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