Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, Thank you so much! The Hailwood photo was also shot with the C220. I had been sitting in the stands at the Sachs Curve at the Hockenheim Ring. Someone left a gate open in the wall and I walked through it to get the shot. If Mike had flinched and gotten off line I would have been hamburger. Those were the good days! On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:21 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Wayne, > The workmanship on those gravestones is exemplary. Nice shot. > > BTW I also looked at the next one of Mike Hailwood at Hockenheim in the > Lola in 1969. Another good shot and brought back memories of seeing Mike > the Bike driving it in Ireland in July of that year. The following year, > I sat in the same T142 car at Mondello over here when Lingard Goulding > bought it. I was a marshal at the track then, and some later in the > '80s, when I ran marathons and focused on mountain running, I wound up > running with Ling and his brother Ham in the Wicklow hills in the '80s. > > On the Lola, Ling crashed it a couple of times that year and had a new > monocoque made up by Charles Beattie before writing off the car fairly > comprehensively. Here's the history of it if you're interested. > https://www.oldracingcars.com/beattie/p1100/ > > Douglas > > On 29/04/2020 23:44, Wayne Torry via LUG wrote: > > Since Don identifies ivy as a weed, I remembered this old favorite of > mine. > > Circa 1969. Slow Agfa film and Agfa Rodinal. View large if possible. > > Mamiya C220 w/105mm lens. > > > > Detail: Heiliger Sand > > > > In the southwest corner of the walled city of Worms is the Heiliger Sand, > > the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/venchka/Europe-1969_001/Worms+Germany/Worms+Headstone-Ivy-1.jpg.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >