[Leica] $15,000 Ansel Adams repro

[bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)]

At least no one has bid on it yet.

-dan c.

At 12:13 AM 31-07-05 -0700, Peter Klein wrote:
>Q:  How is Ansel Adams like grilled cheese?:
>
>A:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Virgin-Mary-appeared-in-my-Ansel-Adams-Picture_W0QQ
itemZ6197096044QQcategoryZ1447QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
>My first reaction was, "very funny."  But. . .
>
>. . .  a couple of weeks ago some folks from the local astronomical society 
>set up a telescope in the park where we often walk.  For the first time in 
>my life, I saw with my own eyes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter 
>simultaneously, along with cloud bands on the big planet itself.
>
>I went online and read the statement that Galileo had to sign in order to 
>save himself from torture and possible burning at the stake.  He was given 
>the lesser punishment of house arrest for the rest of his life.  It took 
>the Church 400 years to apologize for the injustice.  As always happens 
>when I think about that sorry incident, it made me very angry.
>
>A day or two later, I heard on NPR a retrospective on the Scopes 
>trial.  Some of the townspeople interviewed gave the impression that not 
>much has changed since then.  As do a number of people in high places today.
>
>Which brings me back to the grilled cheese sandwich and the $15,000 Ansel 
>Adams repro, and why such things are possible.  Even today, four centuries 
>after the great Italian scientist saw those little bright dots moving about 
>Jupiter, and in the second decade of genome mapping.
>
>Unfortunately, I was not equipped to photograph Jupiter and its moons with 
>a Leica.
>
>--Peter
>
>
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