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Subject: [Leica] World War II re-enactment
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:17:31 -0400

I love it. ;-)


On 6/28/09 8:15 PM, "Steve Unsworth" <lug at steveunsworth.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm sure we could, but in 6 months we wouldn't really understand them. I
> certainly don't understand why they do it - and that applies to the cowboys
> as well as the indians.
> 
> On a slightly different note, I once worked with someone who was a member 
> of
> the sealed knot society here in the UK. They re-enact English civil war
> battles, and no, I don't understand them either. The point being he was in
> charge of a small cannon and a 35mm film canister held just the right 
> amount
> of gunpowder to fire the cannon. So I used to give him my used FP4 and 
> Tri-X
> canisters. After a few weeks he asked me to stop as he had more than enough
> to see him through the foreseeable future.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> On 29/6/09 01:06, "B. D. Colen" <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:
> 
>> Oh, I know that. Just B.D. being B.D. (And we could spend the next six
>> months debating the difference between children chosing to be cowboys - 
>> who
>> those of us of a certain age grew up thinking we're heroes, or Indians, 
>> who
>> we now understand were the victims of genocidal 'manifest destiny,' and
>> adults chosing to be Nazis. But back to photography...Really nice 
>> images.:-)
>> )
> 
> 
> 
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