[Leica] IMGs: For love of the black and white photography of Edward Weston, Minor White and W. Eugene Smith

[Scott Gregory]

Ted 

I must say that your spirit for living each day to the fullest comes through loud and clear through your LUG correspondence. And it truly is inspiring to me and I would imagine many others on this list. 

I'm in my early 60's (something I have in common with the Photokina M60 they have been advertising lately!!) and at a time in life where I've seen parents pass in the last 15 years or so having watched their decline and a father in law at 86 who passed this year and carried Leicas and shot them since his boyhood. 
He was the one who encouraged me years ago to pick up a Leica rangefinder and give it a try and for that I will always be thankful to him. 
He loved those rangefinders and photography right up until a year or so before he passed and I saw what an interest there was that brought some spark to his daily life when days were not so bright. And the interest I have gave us something still to talk about in those down days. 
So your spirit for living and getting up each day to put one's best foot forward is something I look forward always to reading when you are in that frame of mind to give advice which will benefit anyone reading your words of wisdom. 
Picking up a Leica or really any camera one can afford and getting out there to try ones best sure makes good sense as we all get older. 
And I truly wish you well and to keep shooting and getting "out there"!

Scott



> On Sep 12, 2014, at 2:08 PM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 12, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Ted Grant wrote:
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>> Now you've brightened my day I shall make the effort to look for the M-mono.
>> cheers,
> 
> a toast to "brightened days" ;~) my friend
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
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