Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/10
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At 3:06 PM -0500 12/10/00, Martin Howard wrote:
>'Twas four o'clock, early morn',
> and I was wide awake,
>From gentle slumber I'd been torn,
> my sleep I would forsake.
>
>My mind was mad, running wild,
> tearing at its seams,
>A single question had it riled,
> depriving me of dreams.
>
>Its gnawing, gnarling, gnashing self,
> inside my brain did scrape,
>"Should my M6, on the shelf,
> be covered in black tape?.
>
>So small and neat, with chrome so clean,
> it sparkled in the light,
>Yet maybe such a pristine sheen,
> was too prominent a sight.
>
>Like HCB and Depardon,
> this camera of mine,
>Would capture Life, as it went on,
> around me all the time.
>
>Unobserved, yet seeing all,
> I'd stalk the streets at night,
>With my pictures I'd show all,
> my photographic might.
>
>Yet gleaming chrome, stealth does defy,
> despite my best intention,
>thus may require me to try,
> some shrewd circumvention.
>
>But residue, black tape doth leave,
> when once it is removed,
>And thus my plight this starry eve,
> remained, alas, unmoved.
>
>For hours more, I tossed and turned,
> no answer could I find,
>for sleep and rest I dearly yearned,
> and for peace of mind.
>
>And presently, the day did break,
> and with it my resolve,
>to end all future nights awake,
> and so a plan evolved.
>
>I packed my camera, lens and all,
> and sold it to Kowloon,
>A newbie shooter, guy named Paul,
> it couldn't ship too soon.
>
>Then late one night, Paul called my home,
> he sounded in poor shape,
>"Should the camera parts in chrome,
> be covered in black tape?"
>
>
>M.
>
>--
>Martin Howard | "And many photographers will also appreciate
>Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | the separate control rings for focus and
>email: howard.390@osu.edu | aperture." -- Leica lens ad copy.
>www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +--------------------------------------------
No disrespect to Dr. Blacktape, but you, Martin, have put up the
definitive response to this ever-reappearing, sticky and darkly gummy
thread. Bravo!
....so it appears you are just treading water in your thesis work
at the moment???
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* Henning J. Wulff
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