[Leica] I'm still here! - Herb

[Jay Burleson]

Herb, the magic elixir is Lagavulin.
And let me know if you do make it to Seattle, please!

Jay

On 6/16/2015 5:53 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
> Oh Ted! I’m dying to meet you. Yet, travel is getting tricky. Besides being totally beholden to two cats—there are a number of other partially idiotic reasons we haven’t traveled for a few years. First, I’m a bit of an asshole, and I got so pissed off at airport security theater that I decided one day that if I couldn’t drive there, I’d not go there. Part of it is a temper, and I figured it was only a matter of time before I’d lose my cool and say things that could get me arrested. Especially when the bastards x-rayed film when FAA regs said you had the right to demand hand inspection.
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> Now my wife is losing her sight—she’s only three years younger than me and I was 93 last week. So, a long car trip now means I do all the driving, which I’m happy to do, but I’m not sure I can talk her into it. I’d  Love to visit Seattle  and then to north to Vancouver, BC.
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> So, you have my sympathy. When I get physically down, I get bloody depressed, and it occurs periodically whenever my red blood count goes down (anemia-fought by a drug injection). And, if I lose Lee, it will be relatively catastrophic, because I never learned to cook.
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> I forgot the name of the Scotch you and others brag about. I must buy a bottle and see what all the shouting is about. I remember it begins with “L” but that doesn’t make the name unique.
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> Cheers,
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> Herb
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> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
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> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
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>> On Jun 16, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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! 
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>> 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.  
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>> 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?
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>> 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!
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>> 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!
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>> 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! :-(
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>> 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!!  
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>> Someone told me, "Why don't you go out and take pictures?" I had to choke my emotions to avoid killing the SOB!!!!!
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>> Sorry lads & ladies a bit of a bad day and the LUG happened to be my friends to talk with. Sorry.  
>> ted