Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant Canadian 68 in years -- 28 in mind! :) married. 48 years 4 children: No: 2 son far better photographer than his old man. No: 2 daughter owns and operates her own stock sports photography agency 10 grand children: two old enough to be doing they're own picture taking. No formal photography education. Learned by doing! When not shooting and bitching, lectures on photography -- "as in picture taking" Yale, School of Medicine, Kodak Canada, Leica USA, Community colleges, camera clubs and professional associations. Still have first camera ( Argus A2 35mm) my wife bought for my birthday 27 May 1950. And started my career She has beeen sorry on several occaisions! :) First news photo with creditline, Ottawa Citizen:17 september '51 Working gear: 3 M6 and assortment of lenses. 3 R7's with motors 1 R8 "NO MOTOR!" :) Pile of R lenses: 15 to 400. Fun cameras: Minilux -- Leica mini -- Mini zoom. Russian Contax lll copy and a Leica copy. Couple of Leica cameras from 1932,also couple of 111 g's and f's Leicaflex SL Mot. 4 published books: Montreal, the City; Joe Clark: The emerging Leader; Men of the Saddle. Working Cowboys of Canada; This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. One of the "Day in the Life of Canada" photographers. Personal photographer for two Prime Ministers; Clark & Mulroney Honourary Medical degree, USSR Academy of Medical Science, Moscow. Love what I do and expect to do it until retirement: 17 September 2021. that will be the 70th anniversary of first published picture and I'll still only be 92. Go figure who loves what he does! :) Think positive!:) Too many other parts, get the book version as a Christmas present 1998!:) ted