[Leica] I'm still here!

[philippe.amard]

Ted, dear doc Uncle Dad Ted,

you have sons and nephews and nieces all over the planet - that's what  
the LUG is about - and always there for you.

Open table for you, any time, here.

With lots of love

Philippe and Alice from over the pond :-)




Le 16 juin 15 à 23:18, Ted Grant a écrit :

> 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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