[Leica] I'm still here!

[Herbert Kanner]

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




> On Jun 16, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi Crew,
> Well I'm still here even though I'm not responding much. Sometimes life just gets slow and you wonder why are you still breathing?  
> 
> The Smart-phones - iphones etc. without question are an incredible communication tool. And without question, "a destroyer of many professional photographers lives" as they once were!  PITY! 
> 
> In my case, at the sweet and youthful age of just becoming 86 incredible years May 27, 2015. I don't really give life a hoop! Yep I still receive medical type assignments that pay hardly enough to buy a fine bottle of Single Malt Scotch.  Heart breaking really.   
> 
> I suppose given my first published photo, 17 September 1951 front page of the Ottawa Citizen-Canada newspaper that launched me into a most incredible life as a "Happy Snapper"    WHY?
> 
> Well my dearest wife Irene whom I married 15 October 1949 gave me a little 35mm ARGUS A2 camera for my first birthday, 27 May 1950 after we were married! ( that's for the techies!) ;-) She became the toughest photo editor you can ever imagine!  
> 
> She was always the best of the best in the search for the images that fit the stories or were covering a documentary subject. Or whatever the assignment! Surely that girl made me a far better photographer than any other human being on the planet! 
> 
> And for so many years we joked about who would die first...... usually her telling me?  " If I go first you wont know how to make the oven work?" My response always? "Not a hope given my war assignments, crashing while driving stock cars and Sprints! Oh yeah a couple of minor plane landings that kind of broke the plane up a bit!" Oh yeah and te helicopter that caught fire in the High Arctic at minus 50 below! :-(
> 
> Unfortunately she was right. "She did go first!   3 years now after 64 years married!" I have quite frankly been a damn wreck since. Some days nothing but wishing your heart would stop beating! Nor did I know how to make the oven work!!   
> 
> Someone told me, "Why don't you go out and take pictures?" I had to choke my emotions to avoid killing the SOB!!!!! 
> 
> Sorry lads & ladies a bit of a bad day and the LUG happened to be my friends to talk with. Sorry.  
> ted
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