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Subject: [Leica] My time at Big Sky
From: chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)
Date: Fri Aug 1 06:57:36 2008
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Even better then a suitcase of old photos is a Graflex pacemaker with a 
questionable shutter and  a bunch of 10 year plus expired Polaroid Type 55 
film.  The images just come out like that  right out of the camera.
Chris


At 06:17 PM 7/31/2008, you wrote:
>Chris, I enjoyed looking through these. Your nostalgic theme works well.
>Some of them might easily have been from a 50's childhood. The scenic shots
>appear to have been a labour of love to create or perhaps you unearthed a
>suitcase of negatives from Grandfather's attic?
>
>Cheers
>Geoff
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>-----Original Message-----
>Subject: [Leica] My time at Big Sky
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>Each summer we try to take a holiday to Big Sky, which is a house built on
>top of a large hill, (some call them mountains) in the town of Halcott,
>NY.  They aren't mountains in the sense that they  weren't caused directly
>by an orogeny event but rather the uplift of an entire sedimentary plateau
>which was deposited during the Acadian orogeny.  Today the plateau
>resembles a mountain range due to the subsequent erosion by streams and the
>widening of valleys and rounding of hills by glaciers.  Look at some
>pictures mostly not of eroded hills.  The house is at about 3000 feet which
>is high for New Yorkers.
>
><http://www.imagebrooklyn.com/Vacation%202008/Halcott%202008%20Page/halcott_
>2008_thumbpage.htm>
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>Chris Saganich, M.S.
>Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics
>Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>New York Presbyterian Hospital
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>Fax. 212.746.4800
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Chris Saganich, M.S.
Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York Presbyterian Hospital
chs2018@med.cornell.edu
http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/
Ph. 212.746.6964
Fax. 212.746.4800
Office A-0049








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