[Leica] A 2014 year wrap-up

[Tina Manley]

How about Dear Ted?  I feel the same as you.  We have made it through
another year and are still chugging along taking photos and looking for the
light.  I walked for miles today through a flea market looking for photos.
It was great fun and maybe I got something and maybe I didn't but I was out
there trying!

No, I have never had the slightest desire to smoke.  My parents were both
chain smokers and I grew up breathing in all of that disgusting smoke in
closed cars and having all of my clothes smell like smoke.  I grew up never
to put one in my mouth, but my sister grew up as a chain smoker.  Who knows
why!!  Her health is suffering greatly now and she is three years younger
than I am.  I wish I could say that none of my kids smoked but they all
have at one time or another and the youngest is still hooked even though
she can't afford it.  I don't see how it could be worth cutting off years
of healthy, productive life!

Keep shooting and keep healthy and we'll all be around next year at this
time wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Lots of love,

Tina

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> As 2014 slowly shuts down. A reminisce?
>
> Well I was going to complain about the aches and pains of supposedly
> growing, I was going to say  "OLD!" But that's a word for "OLD PEOPLE!"
> Usually those who have no young thoughts, nor young of heart! Hell many of
> them were old at 14 and never got over it! :-(
>
> However we, many of the crew, are young of heart and thought. Still get the
> aches and pains, WHY? Well in many cases derived from our youthful
> travelling through a time capsule capturing magical moments of the folks of
> the world. Or some other youthful, but crazy things we did because we were
> young enjoying every moment... sometimes in a bit of a, shall we say?
> Reckless dare devil fashion, led not by brain power. But "Why not? Lets do
> it!:-)  What the hell?" :-) A wonderful attitude! Although it can.... get
> you killed! :-)
>
> And there's nothing these days worse than a Monday when you awake thinking
> it's Saturday and the weekend to do nothing! As for photographers
> "working?"
> That word isn't in our vocabulary! Work is moving concrete blocks! Not what
> we did and do, although in a slower motion kind of way these days, "making
> happy snaps!" And people were pleased to pay for our youthful efforts!!"
> :-)
>
> But when I'm in a state of aches, pains, Tylenol and pain killers of sorts
> I
> don't think bad and say... "Damn you were stupid and not careful and you
> shouldn't have done the following:
>
> 1/Driven Stock cars and had those crashes!
> 2/Driven Sprint cars and had those crashes!
> 3/Had those two icy road crashes and roll over's in the winter!
> 4/The helicopter ride, cabin filled with smoke dropping like a fast falling
> brick to the arctic ice at 50 below zero!!
> 5/Thrown out of the speed boat as the last image of the assignment
> "CLICKED!".
> 6/Being hit by three football defensemen on the sideline at the same time
> with the ball carrier!
> 7/The two ski equipped airplane crash landings on the arctic ice in two
> days.
> 8/Hit by a flying wheel off a stock car while shooting from the infield.
> 9/The not perfect landing on my first and only solo parachute jump at 65
> years!
>
> And there's probably a couple more things in there all in the name of being
> a photojournalist! :-) OR LOVABLY CRAZY! :-)
>
> But you know what? I wouldn't change any of it for one second! Other than
> trying to be home when my children and dear wife Irene had birthdays or
> special events or "other growing-up things when I should have been there."
> :-(
>
> And Tina? Apart from us both being photographers? We have one other thing
> in
> common. We never smoked! My tiny mother gave me an option I never
> challenged.... "If you smoke like your father I will kill you!" Seemed a
> reasonable reason not to smoke. So I never did. :-)
> Some days it... "the body" some place or other hurts and aches like the
> devil. Then I think about my incredible life and say to myself about the
> aches and pains! "GET OVER IT!" They're just the trophies of a great life!
> :-)
>
> And as this year 2014 draws to a close I wish the LUG CREW and your
> families
> a wonderful New Year 2015 with a million great photo exposures with your
> Leica's! OR? Whatever? ;-)
>
> MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015
>
> ted, Dr. ted, Uncle ted.... whatever?   :-)
>
>
>
>
>
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