[Leica] Being an international sports photographer! :-)

[Ted Grant]

Frank Dernie OFFERED:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Being an international sports photographer! :-)

>>>> Reminds me of my 35 years motor racing. Flight pretty well every week
and see nothing but airport, hotel and circuit, leaving hotel at 6am and
returning after midnight mostly.
Now I am retired I have only been into an airport twice in the last 4 years,
and that was twice too many.<<<<<<
Frank D.
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HI FRANK,
Although I'm not on that routine any longer I'd like to see the hours and
flight times for my 60 years???????? Although if I were to receive a dollar
for every mile travelled and every hour sitting and sleeping in airports? I
think I may well be able to buy a couple of Leica "S" cameras and some
lenses with money left over for a couple of M9's! :-)

However not sure what I might do with them??? But they'd just feel nice in
hands and peaking through the view finders! :-)

cheers,
ted





On 3 Sep, 2014, at 03:25, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Crew,
> A note from my son Scott whom many of you know his name and have seen his
> photography. So here's his life during the past 21 days!
> ============
> Scott's message:
> I added up some numbers for those that might be interested in what it
really
> like to travel and work as a professional in my field. During August this
> year, I had three big assignments, Para Pan Pacific swimming Championships
> in Pasadena, California, Pan Pacific Championships on the Gold Coast in
> Australia and the Jr Pan Pacific Championships in Maui. To the general
> population it all sounds pretty amazing and glamorous, don't get me wrong,
> it was a pretty amazing month. I put together some facts on the trip. This
> is over a three week period, crossing the international date line, which
got
> me two Tuesdays last week.
> 
> Travel:
> 
> Time spent in the air: 54 hours
> Distance travelled: 24,671 miles(38,634 km)
> Time in trains: 14 hours
> Time waiting in airports: 28 hours
> Days shooting: 15
> Days off: 1
> Images shot: 9850 approximately 
> Time to edit everything: 2-3 weeks
> 
> For swimming the events start between 9am-10am each day for the heats,
> usually last until 11:30-12:30, arrival time to the pool is 8am. Back to
the
> hotel spend the afternoon working on photos. Finals start between 5pm-6pm,
> last until 7:30-9:00, back to the hotel and work on pictures until
midnight.
> In between the events it was grabbing a quick bite to eat, sometimes it
was
> real food, other than just a sandwich.
> 
> As for visiting beautiful places and seeing the world, I did, I saw
> airports, hotels and swimming pools. That's about it. <<<<<<<<
> cheers,
> Scott Grant
> 
> 
> 
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