[Leica] The Pope.

[joelct at singnet.com.sg (joelct)]

Hello Ted

Thanks for sharing those 'quiet moments' - can you share those pictures too?

Joseph L / Singapore




--- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

> What I'm about to share with you was a moment I had while
> photographing the 
> Pope in 1984 during His visit to Canada. Of course using Leica's.
> :-)
> 
> We were in Government House, home of the Governor General in Ottawa
> and as 
> one of the Prime Minister's photographer's at the time, it was my
> assignment 
> to shoot many meet and greets during a reception of His Eminence and
> Members 
> of Parliament.
> 
> It was a heck of crowd, something like being in a hurrican of people
> and 
> noise, just incredible. But when I was as close as it was possible
> to shoot, 
> within a few feet of the Pope, I could have touched Him or He me,
> there was 
> an amazing quiet and calmness like being in the eye of a storm.
> 
> It kind of caught me by surprise with all the jostling going on,
> loud voices 
> and yet here I was in this "quite space" shooting without any effect
> of the 
> crowd. Amazing! And in all my years had only experienced a similar
> kind of 
> "presence thing" once before.
> 
> And when the shoot was over after about 20 minutes and I stepped out
> of this 
> closeness, I was back into the jostling and racket of the crowd. So
> there 
> was something there being that close to the Pope.
> 
> For those interested, I'm of protestant faith, so to me the Pope was
> the 
> Holy Man of the Catholic church and that was it with respect. So my
> feelings 
> were not influenced due to the possibility I may have been of the
> Catholic 
> Faith.
> 
> But it was a moment to remember while in the company of this man and
> what he 
> meant to so many people on this planet. It's a sad day for many at
> his 
> passing.
> 
> Hopefully you'll find it an interesting Leica moment.
> 
> ted
> 
> 
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