[Leica] Wednesday Weeds

Wayne Torry papatorry46 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 17:36:45 PDT 2020


Douglas,
Thank you so much!
The Hailwood photo was also shot with the C220. I had been sitting in the
stands at the Sachs Curve at the Hockenheim Ring. Someone left a gate open
in the wall and I walked through it to get the shot. If Mike had flinched
and gotten off line I would have been hamburger.
Those were the good days!

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:21 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Wayne,
> The workmanship on those gravestones is exemplary. Nice shot.
>
> BTW I also looked at the next one of Mike Hailwood at Hockenheim in the
> Lola in 1969. Another good shot and brought back memories of seeing Mike
> the Bike driving it in Ireland in July of that year. The following year,
> I sat in the same T142 car at Mondello over here when Lingard Goulding
> bought it. I was a marshal at the track then, and some later in the
> '80s, when I ran marathons and focused on mountain running, I wound up
> running with Ling and his brother Ham in the Wicklow hills in the '80s.
>
> On the Lola, Ling crashed it a couple of times that year and had a new
> monocoque made up by Charles Beattie before writing off the car fairly
> comprehensively. Here's the history of it if you're interested.
> https://www.oldracingcars.com/beattie/p1100/
>
> Douglas
>
> On 29/04/2020 23:44, Wayne Torry via LUG wrote:
> > Since Don identifies ivy as a weed, I remembered this old favorite of
> mine.
> > Circa 1969. Slow Agfa film and Agfa Rodinal.  View large if possible.
> > Mamiya C220 w/105mm lens.
> >
> > Detail: Heiliger Sand
> >
> > In the southwest corner of the walled city of Worms is the Heiliger Sand,
> > the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe.
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/venchka/Europe-1969_001/Worms+Germany/Worms+Headstone-Ivy-1.jpg.html
> >
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