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Subject: [Leica] GREG LORENZO favourite picture? ;-) GREAT STORY HERE!
From: stasys1 at cox.net (Stasys Petravicius)
Date: Wed Mar 1 07:08:12 2006
References: <p0623092bc023a8b91c09@[10.0.1.2]> <000301c63909$e1e359e0$2ee76c18@ted> <9A49EF28-1D82-4F54-8DB4-394DC6C3B9B9@ralgo.nl> <003101c6396b$ea975cf0$2ee76c18@ted> <7F8D5073-DC5B-41BB-BE59-761BC6A66AC9@ralgo.nl> <003901c63cc6$2fbaf2d0$73b56c18@ted>

Great post !! Stasys
On Feb 28, 2006, at 4:22 PM, 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
>
>
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In reply to: Message from r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor) ([Leica] Cape Cod in Winter)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] GREG LORENZO favourite picture? ;-))
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Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] GREG LORENZO favourite picture? ;-))
Message from bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce) ([Leica] GREG LORENZO favourite picture? ;-))
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] GREG LORENZO favourite picture? ;-) GREAT STORY HERE!)