Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Ted. And, if I may add one tid-bit, Lord Brabourne, who died last Summer, was a Leica owner and user! B. On 1-mrt-2006, at 1:22, Ted Grant wrote: > Some of you may remember this picture if you looked at: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/My-Photo-Life?page=3 > > It's Admiral Lord Mountbatten attending the Calgary Stampede as > Grand Marshall for the opening ceremonies... 1967 with his daughter > on his right. It appears he's about to grab her leg due to a rather > bad crash of chuck wagons and horses falling to the ground.. Behind > me obviously! :-( Yes I missed it! > > As it turned out GREG LORENZO saw this photo some time ago and > considers it one of his all time favourite Ted Grant pictures. ;-) > In any event our LUG team mate "Bruce" in the Netherlands suggested > I should send a copy of the picture to the Admiral's daughter if > she were still alive after these many long years... 1967-2006. > > Low and behold Bruce went on the hunt and came up with the post > below a short time ago. After all this time, 36 years later here's > his post and conversation with the daughter, Countess Mountbatten > of Burma. > >>>> Ted, > I just made a call to England, answered by a lady, with a somewhat > regal voice. I explained who I was and why I was > calling ................ to determine, if she were still alive, the > whereabouts of Lady Brabourne, Patricia Knatchbull, daughter of Lord > Louis Mountbatten. > >>> Having determined who I was and the LUG connection, the reply came, > "I am she". It was the early 60s .................. she just informed > me, that she and her father, Lord Louis, were at the Calgary Stampede > (it was, you show, 1967). She recalled it well. > > She would be delighted to receive a print of the photo. Doesn't have > to be an enlargement, she said, but she would love to see/have it as > a remembrance. Who was the photographer? Ted Grant, says I. Yes, she > seemed to recollect the name easily.<<<<<< > > Now isn't that something else? You just have to love this internet > at times. :-) > One more reason not to forget film either! It's Tri-x at 400. > > This picture story is interesting. However, there's an even bigger > story to this incident than the photo, it's this LUG family!! It's > what Brian Reid has given to each and everyone of us, a connection > around the world bringing people together who've never shook hands > nor heard a voice. > > Where we become screen and live friends while we try to help each > other in so many ways. If nothing else imagine this scenario: > > A Canadian photographer took a photo 36 years ago, 1967. A fellow > in the Netherlands today 2006, suggests "send a copy of the photo." > He tracks down the person in the photo, responds to the Canadian > photographer who sends a copy to said subject whom is, the > "Countess of Burma!" 36 years later! Absolutely bloody amazing! > > Thank you Brian Reid for your wonderful LUG family! :-) > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information