Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Nathan. On 6/24/21 3:37 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Lovely memory, Jim! > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right" > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 24 Jun 2021, at 19:18, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: >> >> A local fly-in in 2006 attracted a lot of people to the airport, >> including a number of retirees who enjoyed an excuse to get outside. >> Four AEDC retirees were greeting each other when a younger acquaintance >> asked to take our picture. He sent me an 8x10 which has been on a shelf >> in my office for the past fifteen years. Now 91 and limited in my >> activities, I find the photo sets me to thinking of the past. >> >> Pictured are two Jims and two Cliffs. I am easy to recognize by the >> Leica IIIf and an SLR around my neck. The Cliff next to me was a very >> young B-24 belly turret gunner in WWII, and later joined me to supervise >> operations of the world's largest supersonic wind tunnel. The next Jim >> was an instrumentation supervisor, and the next Cliff was a computer >> technician. All of us worked long night shifts in the past, because that >> was when the electrical power was cheapest, and we used large quantities >> of it. >> >> Sorry, the feet are cut off, but that is the way the photo was shot. >> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210624-P6240092.JPG.html >> >> I don't recall seeing any of these guys since that day in 2006, but the >> photo is a cross-section of the past, for me. And, in Tennessee, we do >> have some colorful chacters. >> >> -- >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> -- >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus >> Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ >> Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA