Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]24 hours to what, Adam...:-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ted Bayer Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 7:40 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus with a tenuous link to a Leica M3 Love you, too, Adam. Hon <Big Grin> - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge@mac.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus with a tenuous link to a Leica M3 > Hi Hon, > > This was posted on the Leica list. You have liked Graham's > photography. I think > you'll find this moving. > > Love you! Only 24 hours!!!!! > > Adam > > On Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Graham Battison thoughtfully wrote: > > >I am sitting in the churchyard at Flore eating my lunch. The service > >has been over for some time, a few stragglers are leaving the church > >after spending some time chatting. The sky is a typical English mix > >of blue with > >white clouds in some parts and black as thunder in others. > > > >I watch what I take to be worshipper set out on a footpath across a > >field in > >front of the church and think to myself that she must be very devout > >to walk > >from the next village to attend services. The path although fairly > >dry today > >can be > >very messy. I take a shot, my usual stuff, landscape with lone > >figure. > > > >When I look again the lone figure is on the far side of the field and turns > >to come back toward the church. She is walking slowly, head > >occasionally bowed, obviously lost in thought as if reluctant to > >complete the field crossing. I toy with the idea of another shot but > >my sandwiches are good and I let the > >moment pass. I have since found out that her late father used to > >walk his > >dog on that footpath. > > > >Eventually she returns to the churchyard and stands over a grave for > >a time > >then approaches me. She stops a distance from where I am sitting > >(very > >English) and asks if she might ask a favour of me (decidedly un-English). > >She explains that she used to live locally and had been visiting her mother > >in nearby Daventry and that the grave she had been looking at was > >that of her father. She was on her way back to Devon, where she now > >lives after returning from several years in America and had stopped > >by the church to take a photograph of the grave (she pays someone > >local to tend it). > > > >Finding that the camera she thought was in the car was not there she > >was considering where she might buy a disposable on a winters Sunday > >in the UK > >when she saw me take a shot of her walking across the field. She > >asks, "Was > >I a photographer?" and "would I take a photograph for her of her > >fathers' grave?". "In the loosest possible sense" and "yes I would" I > >replied. > > > >I took a couple of shots, she thanked me profusely and with her > >emotions running high and my web address in her purse she left at > >about 1:30pm. I finished my lunch and as insurance against looking an > >idiot I took a few extra shots of the grave before I left. > > > >Devon is quite a drive from Flore but at 7pm I got an email (maybe > >she has a > >Lear jet) and she tells me that she has been smiling "about life's > >little co-incidences". Not only does she "meet a chap with a camera > >but a real photographer" (she has by this time visited my web site) > >and "you just never know your luck, do you?". > > > >She closes her email with a post script: > >"I wonder if you know the work of James Ravilious? I think you would > >appreciate it. I had a small hand in the last published book of his > >photographs with text by Peter Beacham called 'Down the Deep Lanes' > >published by Devon Books. I'll give you further details if your > >interested." > > > >I checked him out. He was born 1939, died 1999 and wandered around > >Devon shooting local stuff with a Leica M3. It's a small world. > > > >http://www.geebeephoto.com/temp/Flore/Flore.html > > > > > >Graham > >http://geebeephoto.com > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see > >http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html