Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A very Happy Christmas and Joyful New Year to you too, Ted. You are an inspiration to the LUG. Keep pressing that shutter and showing us the results! Peter On 24/12/2016 23:04, Ted Grant wrote: > MY CHRISMAS 2016 WISHES TO THE CREW! J > > I wish you all the most exciting moments you can possibly enjoy while > opening a gift from a friend or your caring LOVING FAMILY! J > > I realize the CREW is made up of a number of varying religions. So be it. > > May I suggest for a "tiny moment" if you possibly can? Here's my "Great > Spirit" that has brought/got me this far? > > "The GREAT SPIRIT?" In reality, each and everyone of us has a "GREAT > SPIRIT". Each religion has a different name for "HE? or SHE?" > > Maybe you aren't involved in a religion? > > BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT? Out there somewhere there is a "Great Spirit" that > looks after you just as you "click?" The shutter assisting you to capture a > magical moment. > > Now don't get all "TTTTTTing" J > > Nor get all anti-religion as this has nothing to do with religion? "WELL AS > FAR AS I'M CONCERNED!" > > My "GREAT SPIRIT" has pretty well always been on my shoulder saving my ass > during a few of the following! > > 1/ Crashing in a Sprint car during a race on a half mile dirt track! > Flipped > upside down and destroyed! The car was a write off. Me? Stitches in face > and > head! > > 2/ Crashing in a Stock Car then crashed into while I'm upside down hanging > on my seat belt!" four other cars into me destroying my car! > > 3/ In the high arctic on assignment the helicopter filled with smoke and we > are hundreds of miles from base camp falling toward the arctic ocean frozen > ice at 50 below zero. OOPS!JWalked away! Damn cold > > 4/A ski equipped twin Otter plane bad landing on Arctic ice, breaking a > wing > and strut off. Rather bumpy one might say! L > > 5/ Survived two war assignments.. 1967 Mideast and a short time in Vietnam > 1968. > > 6/ While in the center field shooting at car race and wheel came off car, > hit & FLIPPED me and cameras into the sky! OH YEA that hurt! I was by > ambulance to hospital! but I survived! > > That merely touches the 65 years as a photojournalist hopping about the > world! That's because my "GREAT SPIRIT" has been on my shoulder all those > years! > > So there you go a bit about my "GREAT SPIRIT!"J > > HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS DAY & a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017! > > CHEERS, > > Dr. Ted Grant C.M. O.C. > > > > --- > 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 > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig