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Subject: [Leica] American Cemetery
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sat Jan 5 16:45:29 2008

Tina,

That is good to hear.  I will check it out with local gendarmes.  Here is a
short story about one costly cemetery trip -- feel free to delete. My wife
was feeling a little down, and I asked her to come along while I
photographed some cemeteries.  After a while, I sensed (a rare thing) that
this was not cheering her up.  On the way back home, I saw a new store,
"Mars Music", and said, hey, let's stop in and get some new CD's.  It was
not a CD store, but was an instrument store.  In the front were some
electronic keyboards.  She brightened up, and sat down to play one, never
having used one.  The salesman (a very good salesman) came by and said, I
see you like the Bach Inventions...may I play the left hand?  Immediately, I
looked at the price tag and saw $500 and breathed a sigh of relief.  He
said, at the level you play, may I show you the professional keyboards and
editing equipment?  Getting out of there was M-8 class +.  On top of that, I
went back and got another Telecaster.  If there is anything more addictive
than photo gear, it is music gear.

Ken

p.s. Thanks for the Charleston and Savannah leads also.  I will check them
out.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:49 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] American Cemetery
> 
> At 06:35 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote:
> >I think these are excellent, especially the first.  I like cemeteries,
> and I
> >guess LA has the market cornered on nice ones.  I have been wanting to
> >photograph in the NO cemeteries, but have read from time to time that is
> a
> >risky venture.
> 
> I've photographed in many NO cemeteries with no problems - Charleston
> and Savannah, too - those are great cemeteries. One of my most vivid
> memories of South Louisiana - below NO - is after Hurricane Camille
> when all of the coffins that had broken out of the above ground
> graves were floating around everywhere.  I was 8 months pregnant and
> getting ready to move to Alabama at the time and not photographing
> anything -  too much else to do :-( .  That kid is now 38 years old.
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley
> ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI
> http://www.tinamanley.com
> 
> 
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