Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]40 years ago last summer...summer job as THE reporter/photographer for The Weekly Packet, in Blue Hill, ME. Sent on my own up to the wilds of the paper company woods near the Canadian border to shoot a raging forest fire so bad fire companies were coming from as far away as N.J. Shot my butt off with my Pentax, 50 1.8 and Schneider 135. Great stuff. Drive back to the paper, smoked fit to be served up in Sonny's backyard, and the editor tells me to soup everything fast as the Boston Globe wants to see everything I've got, and AP is calling - I'm on my way to fame and fortune and I'm still in High School. So I load all the Nikkor reels - a zillion to a tank, process everything, and when I look at what I have I see I've made as much of a mess of my own film as that tea boy named Burrows made of Capa's D-Day stuff - roll after roll of stuck together, missloaded Tri-X. And that's when I...switched to digital! LOL!! (well, okay, that had to wait about 42 years - but the rest of the pathetic story is every bit as true as Walt's. ;-) ) B. D. ...... Original Message ....... On Thu, 18 May 2006 17:48:00 -0400 Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: >I was covering one of those virgin type things in El Paso years back. >Several thousand people on top of a mountain waiting to be saved by the >archbishop. Out of nowhere came a storm of immense proportions. Old men >and women, babies, sick and crippled folks who were carried to the top >by family and the biggest hailstones I've ever seen. I shot all the way >down, images to die for and the cold rain and ice battered us all. At >one point I threw myself over an old lady to protect her but then jumped >up to shoot some more. Finally made it to the bottom and found my car. >When I got home neither of my F3's were loaded. Thirty years as a >working photojournalist and I shot my finest work with empty cameras? I >think that's when I became an atheist. :-P > >Walt > >Nick Roberts wrote: > >>Only time I was nearly struck by lightning was at a >>grotto dedicated to the Virgin - shows how dangerous >>religion is! ;) >> >>Nick >> >>--- Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote: >> >> >> >>>At 02:34 PM 5/18/2006, you wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Tina: >>>> >>>>I can't agree good only comes from religion anymore >>>> >>>> >>>than all of the >>> >>> >>>>world's evil does. . >>>> >>>>Walt >>>> >>>> >>>Walt - I said "much of the good" but maybe I should >>>have added that I >>>didn't include just organized religion. The groups >>>I work with are a >>>very eclectic bunch of unorganized do-gooders, and, >>>even though we >>>are sponsored by the PCUSA, we do not proselytize at >>>all and we treat >>>anybody who shows up at the clinics - Christians, >>>Mayans, >>>sun-worshipers, pagans - we don't know because we >>>don't ask. >>> >>>I was almost struck by lightning two years ago in >>>Guatemala. It >>>renewed my faith! Maybe you should go stand out in >>>a field during a storm ;-) >>> >>>Tina >>> >>>Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA >>>http://www.tinamanley.com >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Leica Users Group. >>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >>>more information >>> >>> >>> >> >> >>Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information ___ Sent from handheld device. Please forgive any typos or spelling errors.