RE: [Leica] Am I really doing this

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Normally work with three Ms and two Nikons...21 28 and 35 on Ms, 85 on
one Nikon, and either 60 macro or 17-35 zoom for flash work on the
other. Number six is an E20 digital loaner from Olympus. Part of the
reason for doing this was to produce a piece - words and pictures as
they used to say - for Newsday, and I need to deliver images quickly and
painlessly....

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve
Barbour
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:12 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Am I really doing this

Ahhhh,  delicious......eager trepidation.    And why do you need 6
cameras?  Godspeed
......BD....

Steve

> So I'm sitting in my cubical in the Manhattan PR office, trying to
kill
> time until I take the 9 p.m. Staten Island Ferry inorder to meet a man
> named "Chubby" in the McDonalds at the Staten Island terminal.
>
> If all goes as planned - BIG IF - Chubby and I will be picked up  by
one
> of three 12 passenger vans which, having begun their trip in Queens,
NY,
> will travel through the night toward Columbia, South Carolina, for the
> first reunion of members of the Bracy family, a clan of black
Americans
> who have traced their roots back to about 1800 and a slave/witch
doctor
> on a plantation outside Columbia.
>
> Should we survive the drive, the festivities begin at 6 p.m. Friday
with
> a buffet dinner at a Holiday Inn where family members are staying,
> followed by the presentation of a birthday cake to the 96-year-old
> matriarch of the Bracy family - the youngest reunion attendee is
> one-year-old. Family members will assemble a family quilt, and will
then
> boogee on down with a DJ until midnight or so.
>
> Saturday begins with a trip to the church founded by the
> great-great-great-great grandfather of the woman who put this reunion
> together, the church where countless Bracy's are buried, and the
church
> where the 96-year-old went to school as a little girl.
>
> The visit to the church will be followed from 1-9 p.m. with a get
> together in a state park, where family members will barbeque two whole
> hogs, have a card tournament, run games for the kids, and, if luck is
> with them, play a softball game with another family having a reunion
> there that day.
>
> Sunday it's back into the vans for the drive back to New York for the
> New York area family members and me, your intrepid LUGer, lugging
three
> Ms, two F100s, lenses galore, an Olympus E20 N digital camera, and 50
> rolls of Tri-X and 10 of Delta 3200.
>
> What I haven't figured out yet, is how to focus and shoot in my sleep
- -
> and whether there really will be a guy named Chubby meeting me at the
> McDonalds at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.:-)
>
> B. D.



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