Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You'll be able to spot Ted, he'll be the guy with fifteen camera bodies hanging from his neck/shoulders/hands!!! Clutched in one hand will be some underwear..... :) Congrats Ted!! Bob Keene > >Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 07:34:40 -0700 >From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted honoured - Lifetime Achievement award > >Tim Atherton wrote: > >>Our own Ted (I am presuming) is being honoured, along with Karsh >> >>>From the CAPIC (Canadian Association of Photographers & illustrators in >>Communications http://www.CAPIC.org/mainframe.html) website: >> >>"1999 Lifetime Achievement Awards > >Howdy folks, > >Let me clarify this a bit, as some of you may remember my excitement at the >beginning of the year when I posted my good fortune of being nominated for >the CAPIC Life Time Achievement Award. At which time many of you offered >congratulations, which I humbly accept. > >At the time they were to be presented in March, but this date was changed >to coincide with two things, Yousuf Karsh's itinerary and the PPOC/CAPIC >convention next week in Ottawa. A major event for Canadian professional >photographers. > >So it is once again a time to become nervous at standing before my peers >and receive a wonderful honour of recognition, especially with Yousuf Karsh >and Tom McNeely. > >It is double good fortune for me, as I won the Yousuf Karsh Award in 1971 >for B&W portraiture in Photojournalism presented by the the Professional >Photographers of Canada. So to stand with him while we both receive the >same Life Time Award gives an extra special meaning to the event. > >So the big gala evening is on Tuesday the 10th next week in Ottawa. I >assure you I'll make the LUG family proud and hold the Leica on high! > >ted > >Ted Grant >This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. >http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant > >------------------------------