Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon, A fine tribute it is. I just read the obituary in the Financial Times (I am as much behind on newspaper reading as I am on PAW posting, having just come back from a 3-week trip). I think your picture is just perfect, except for the bright spot over the right eye. By coincidence, I am currently reading Lord Jenkins' massive Churchill biography, a whopper of a book in every sense. May he rest in peace indeed. He was one of the giants of 20th century statemanship. Nathan Simon Stevens wrote: > Call it a tribute, if you will. Lord Jenkins died a few days ago. For > those of you not from the UK, Roy Jenkins was an important British > politician of the last century. He was Home Secretary and Chancellor of the > Exchequer in the Wilson government, and he later went on to co-found the > Social Democratic Party (now merged into the Liberal Democrats). He was > also a bestselling political biographer. > > Anyway, in 1985 he patiently posed for my camera. At 18 years old I was no > Karsh, but I thought I'd post my effort: > > http://www.camera-craftsman.com/Jenkins.html > > Simon Stevens > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html