Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob Figlio wrote: <<<<<<Of course I have been around for a while as well (:-) ... about >50 years of taking pictures [can't believe it sometimes] Hi Bob, But don't you feel great? Really? Would you have wanted to do some boring in office thing for 50 years? I know the answer....."not on your life!" :) Hey there is no life like it! Sure lots of folks make buckets more money, but even with that money they could never buy the experiences of being with the ordinary folks, Kings, Queens and Presidents and they'd surely never be stupid enough to buy their way into some of the wild assignment situations we've been in at risk of life and limb. If this is apples and oranges, I guess my life with Leica's has given me a wonderful life of apples and oranges! As well, I've enjoyed and am expecting to enjoy the fruits of photography for many years to come. OK 27 more of them at least. :) Hey and then I'll only be 97 what the hell do you want? :) A 100? :) Now there's a heck of goal to aim for, 100 and still snapping! :) Anyone out there know a 100 year old photographers still taking happy snaps? Look at the positive side of this, as the population grows older, in a few short hours we'll all be into next year, the old guys around the seventy mark still have 30 years to go to make their mark, a great challenge.:) Imagine saying, " I bought this M6 back in '98 and here we are 30 years later and it's still working and I've just turned 100! Damn they don't make 'em like they used to!" :) "What I really want is one of them "Leica 88's!" Shoots holes right through whatever you take pictures of!" :) I realize a great number of young lads and lasses think I'm crazy, but that's OK as their turn will come and they'll have a choice .......sit back and become one of them old sons o bitches shuffling along the street or have the kick ass attitude, you are going to be shooting happy snaps at 100! :) Me? I know where the hell I'm going to be....shooting, even if I have to use them thar auto whiz bang everything picture taking machines! :) It seems appropriate to get a bit silly on a New Year's eve because we all relate to the changing of time, age or otherwise, old or young. But we all have the same aim and asperations of being picture takers, hopefully with leica's, if that's not the case, so be it! But photography itself is really the driving force for each of us. Even when I reach a 100 I intend to keep myself and driving others onto it! Think positive! :) ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant