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Subject: [Leica] WAS: Nathan's Book List NOW: BEING PUBLISHED REAL TIME!
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 22:27:30 -0700

Nathan I just read your post about bike riding and a crash and burn. Bad
timing mon ami.

Then this post about Men of the Saddle book and your bike riding all came
together. :-)

 

Trust me never go on horse back with 3 M cameras around your neck! Bad move
if the horse is spooked and decides to buck you off! It's bucking, turning,
twisting and lunging one way then another, head down and up and I'm trying
to hang onto the mane, the saddle horn, the cameras are swinging around all
over the place. I let go of the reins with one hand to hold cameras tightly
to my chest. But they're still banging back and forth and I'm freaking out
believing I am going to get killed!

 

It was the ride from hell!! I finally managed to get the reins back in hand
and reefed up as hard as I could and she, you might know it would be she
horse! :-) Stopped! :-)  Me? I could hardly breath! And holding back as hard
as I could from peeing my pants! :-)  Just another life experience in the
wild wild world of being a photographer. :-)

 

She settled down and we gently walked back to the round-up camp! My heart
took sometime longer to slow down! :-)

Cheers,

ted

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan
Wajsman
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:56 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] WAS: Nathan's Book List NOW: BEING PUBLISHED REAL TIME!

 

I have a copy of Men of the Saddle, Ted. The pics are great, the  

reproduction not as good as the later medicine books. But it is  

certainly one of the important books in my large collection of photo  

books.

 

Cheers,

Nathan

 

Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain

http://www.frozenlight.eu

http://www.greatpix.eu

http://www.nathanfoto.com

 

Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0

PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws

Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog

 

 

 

On May 11, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Ted Grant wrote:

 

> A history lesson real time on being published and or getting  

> published!

> 

> 

> 

> My first book happened long before what we can do these days. So I  

> thought you might like to know the realities of then, now and how!

> 

> 

> 

> A couple of friends, a husband & wife photographer team who had  

> several books published previously happened to see an A/V production  

> of mine in Ottawa using 16 projectors at the same time on "cowboy  

> life!"  All Kodachrome colour slides.

> 

> Later unbeknownst to me, they told their publisher in Toronto about  

> the images and the potential for a book.  Publisher phoned and asked  

> me to fly to Toronto at their expense for a meeting and would I  

> bring a selection of mages for the editorial staff to have a look.

> 

> 

> 

> We had the meeting, they looked at the images, they decided to  

> "publish a book!" It was as simple as that!  "Men of the Saddle,  

> Working Cowboys of Canada."  I believe it's on used book internet  

> sites and still found, maybe tattered and rumpled, but it's still a  

> neat book. Colour and black & white images. I believe some on the  

> list have copies?

> 

 

 

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